{"id":2820,"date":"2009-12-26T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2009-12-26T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T09:25:07","slug":"taliban-planned-to-use-americans-in-pakistan-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/taliban-planned-to-use-americans-in-pakistan-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban planned to use Americans in Pakistan attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/taliban.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2821\" title=\"Taliban planned to use Americans in Pakistan attacks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/taliban.jpg\" alt=\"Taliban planned to use Americans in Pakistan attacks\" width=\"244\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Taliban insurgents had planned to use five Americans detained in Pakistan, who had contacted the militant group through the Internet, to carry out attacks inside the U.S. ally, a police official said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Usman Anwar, police chief in Sargodha, where the men were arrested this month, said emails had also revealed plans for the young men from Virginia to travel to a Pakistani nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that they were supposed to be used inside Pakistan,&#8221; Anwar told Reuters by telephone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In their last email to the Taliban, we found they mentioned the Chashma Nuclear Plant and that&#8217;s why they were going to Mianwali (district).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Usman Anwar declined to give details because police were still interrogating the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The case has illustrated how easy it is for anyone to pursue dreams of joining jihad through cyber channels, a worrying reality for Pakistan, already struggling on the ground against Taliban insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is pressuring Pakistan to root out militants in lawless tribal areas who cross the border to attack Western forces in Afghanistan. But it is a sensitive demand.<\/p>\n<p>Pilotless U.S. drone aircraft attacks on suspected militants on Pakistani soil have infuriated many Pakistanis.<\/p>\n<p>The five men were arrested in Sargodha, home to one of Pakistan&#8217;s biggest airbases, 190 km (120 miles) southeast of the Pakistani capital Islamabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban insurgents had planned to use five Americans detained in Pakistan, who had contacted the militant group through the Internet, to carry out attacks inside the U.S. ally, a police official said on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,118,101],"tags":[1477,753,256,2935,1330,762],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","tag-iraqi-president-talibani","tag-nato-afghans-taliban","tag-taliban","tag-taliban-afghanistan","tag-taliban-militants","tag-taliban-spokesman-zabihullah-mujahid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}