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US Accuses Six of Aiding Pakistani Taliban

   VOA News  May 14, 2011

   The U.S. has charged six people with helping to support and finance the
   Pakistani Taliban, a group the American government considers a
   terrorist organization.
   The U.S. Justice Department said Saturday that three residents of the
   southern state of Florida, all naturalized American citizens of
   Pakistani descent, have been arrested and indicted by a grand jury,
   while three other people remain at large in Pakistan.
   All six have been accused of conspiring to murder, maim and kidnap
   people overseas and provide financial assistance to the Pakistani
   Taliban, a group that opposes the Pakistani government and has claimed
   credit for numerous attacks against U.S. interests.

   The Pakistani Taliban claimed credit this week for the suicide bombing
   attacks that killed at least 80 people at a Pakistani military training
   facility in what it said was revenge for the U.S. killing of al-Qaida
   leader Osama bin Laden two weeks ago in a raid at his Pakistani
   hideout.
   The U.S. said the three Florida men sent $45,000 to the Pakistani
   Taliban. They were identified as Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, the
   76-year-old imam at the Flagler Mosque in Miami, and two of his sons,
   Izhar Khan, an imam at another mosque, and Irfan Khan. If convicted,
   each faces up to 15 years in prison.
   The three people accused who are living in Pakistan include the elder
   Khan's daughter, Amina Khan, and her son, Alam Zeb. Ali Rehman is the
   third Pakistani named in the indictment.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

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