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| Islamabad High Court to hear bail plea of US terror suspect on Friday |
| 2017-10-11 |
| [DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear the bail plea later this week of an American citizen of Pak origin awaiting extradition to the United States for allegedly planning an attack on New York in connivance with the bad boy Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group, the suspect's lawyer said on Tuesday. Talha Haroon was jugged You have the right to remain silent... in November 2016. The 19-year-old is one of three suspected IS sympathisers who allegedly plotted to cause bloodshed in New York before US agents reportedly thwarted the plot, US authorities said. Haroon's defence lawyer Idrees Ashraf said IHC Chief Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqi on Tuesday asked for a response from the interior ministry in Haroon's plea and set the next hearing for Friday. Ashraf said his client's father Haroon Rashid previously obtained a stay of his son's extradition from the same court. Rashid earlier claimed his son was innocent and would be in danger if sent to the US. Earlier, US federal law enforcement officials said they disrupted the plot which targeted New York City locations, including concert venues, subway stations and Times Square. |
| Posted by:Fred |