Five American Muslim youths arrested by Pakistani authorities on suspicion of terror links have shown no remorse about their plans to commit terrorist acts and one has even said they should be hanged so that they could become martyrs, a senior police official said on Monday.
“They have no remorse about their plans to commit terror acts. Rather, they regret that they could not lay their lives while also killing some ‘US imperialists’,” said Usman Anwar, the police chief of Sargodha district where the youths were arrested earlier this month.
Anwar quoted 22-year-old Ramy Zamzam, one of the arrested youths, as saying: “Since our plan to embrace ’shahadat’ (martyrdom) could not materialize, we want to become martyrs in another way hang us.”
The other four youths did not disagree with Zamzam in this regard, said Anwar, who is part of the joint investigation team that is interrogating the youths in Lahore.
….“Though the boys have no strong religious background, they are inclined to extremism because of what they describe as ‘US brutality in Muslim countries’,” Anwar said.
Anwar said they were so “desperate to wage holy war” that they decided to form their own group to “sacrifice their lives for Islam”.
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