The American group known as the “Virginia 5” (from Northern Virginia) were reportedly radicalized by extremist websites, but their travel in November 2009 to Pakistan to join the “Jihad” was facilitated by a contact they had made through an exchange of e-mails with Qari Saifullah Akhtar, a Pakistani militant linked to al Qaeda, who had invited the group to Pakistan. Prosecutors said the men traveled from their port of arrival, Karachi, to the cities of Hyderabad and Lahore, where they met with members of the banned militant organizations Jaish-i-Muhammad and Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Jihadist literature belonging to the men, together with maps of an air force base and a nuclear plant in western Punjab province that the men acknowledged wanting to attack, indicated the group's intent to wage terrorism, prosecutors said.VideoVideo: 23 July 2015 Virginia five in detention in Pakistan.
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