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(CNN) -- A Virginia man has been accused of threatening to place pipe bombs along the Metro transportation system in Washington. According to a federal complaint, Awais Younis, who was arrested December 7, related his plans to someone on the social networking site Facebook. Younis, also identified as Sundullah Ghilzai, told an FBI complainant through Facebook how how to build a pipe bomb "and what type of shrapnel would cause the greatest amount of damage," according to federal authorities.

A Virginia man has been arrested for allegedly trying to help Al Qaeda plan multiple bombings around the nation's capital, according to U.S. officials. Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was arrested today by the FBI and charged with providing material support to terrorists and collecting information for a terrorist attack. “It’s chilling that a man from Ashburn is accused of casing rail stations with the goal of killing as many Metro riders as possible through simultaneous bomb attacks,” said Neil MacBride, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “Today’s arrest highlights ... our ability to find those...

A Virginia man has been arrested and indicted on charges he tried to help people he believed were al-Qaida operatives in planning to bomb subway stations in and around the nation's capital. The FBI says the public was never in danger because its agents were aware of the man's activities before the alleged planning took place and monitored him throughout. Farooque Ahmed, 34, a naturalized citizen born in Pakistan, was arrested Wednesday. He was indicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization, collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit...

Story Number: NNS090523-06 Release Date: 5/23/2009 10:46:00 AM By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erin Oberholtzer, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Public Affairs. NEWPORT NEWS (NNS) -- A USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) officer has broken stereotypes in the Navy across all ranks during the past 22 years. Cmdr. Muhammad Khan, Air Department's Head of Department emigrated from Karachi, Pakistan in 1981, to earn a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at North Texas State University. Later, fascinated with Naval Aviation after watching the movie Top Gun, he enlisted in the Navy in 1987. "He is a great guy and a...

WASHINGTON: Another of President-elect Barack Obama’s appointments has been greeted with disbelief by Pakistani-Americans and liberal members of the Indian community because Sonal Shah, the adviser picked up by Obama for his transition team, is known for her links to communal Hindu organisations. Vishwa Hari Parishad (VHP) and its student wing Bajrang Dal are believed to have been involved in the massacre of over 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat and for the last three months have been carrying out a sustained campaign against Indian Christians in Orissa.

Radical Muslim or Legally Insane? By Deborah Weiss FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 12, 2008 On July 28, 2006, Naveed Haq, a 30-year-old Pakistani-American, drove from his parents’ house in Pasco, Washington, to the Jewish Federation in Seattle and went on a murderous rampage. Unable to break into the locked building, Haq waited until a 14-year-old girl with a key came along. With a gun to her back, he forced her to let him in. He then announced that he was a Muslim American who was angry at Israel, and opened fire. Walking through the office spewing anti-Semitic comments and ranting...

Former Prime Minister Assassinated During Political Rally CHICAGO (CBS) ― It is chaos and confusion in Pakistan Thursday after an assassin reportedly shot and killed Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, then blew himself up, killing 20 others. Al-Qaeda is claiming responsibility for the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Bhutto was speaking to thousands of supporters at a political rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi. Upon her leaving in a white sport-utility vehicle after the speech, Bhutto's security advisor says the vehicle pulled away and a gunman approached the car and started shooting, hitting Bhutto in the...

Everett, Wash. Published: Saturday, September 1, 2007 Everett man sentenced to 3 years for 2004 fire By Jim Haley, Herald Writer SEATTLE -- An Everett man who helped disguise a 2004 arson as a hate crime was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday. He also will be required to pay $200,000 restitution for damaging the building that housed the Continental Spices market in south Everett. Naveed Kahn, 25, testified against the owner of the store, Mizra Akram, 40, who also was found guilty by a judge in February and was sentenced to more than four years behind bars. The...

This past Friday, 30-year-old Naveed Afsal Haq, a supposedly lone and “mentally ill” Muslim-American of Pakistani origin, took a 13-year-old girl hostage in order to gain entry to the Jewish Federation Building in Seattle. Declaring himself “angry with Israel,” Haq announced that it was a “hostage” situation, and began shooting only women, including a pregnant woman. Five women were wounded and one, 58 year-old Pam Waechter, was murdered. Several other women were shot in the abdomen. Haq's brutal attack is no ordinary crime. It is the product of an Islamic culture that denigrates women in general and a jihadist culture...

Washington: Naveed Afzal Haq, the Pakistani-American who allegedly went on a shooting spree at a Seattle Jewish centre, it turns out, is not a Muslim but a Christian, having disavowed Islam last year. The picture that emerges is that of a brilliant but very troubled young man who found it hard to come to terms with his environment. His conversion also seems to have sprung from the state of confusion in which he found himself. After dropping out from a dental college in New York, he returned to Seattle and obtained an engineering degree. Last year, he was arrested for...

NEW YORK -- Business in his modest grocery store in Brooklyn's Little Pakistan has gone down so much that Shafiq Ul Hassan has started stocking what he calls ''American foods" in a desperate attempt to attract different customers. Across from the baby goat meat and the pungent ingredients for curry powder, the immigrant shopkeeper has placed candy bars and loaves of white bread. ''You see how empty the store is. This would normally be packed with Pakistani people," Hassan said, sighing. ''A lot of people have left. Most have gone back home or another state. You just don't see people...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Holding signs that read "Hate has no religion" and waving U.S. flags, about 150 Pakistani and other Muslim Americans rallied at the state Capitol Friday to denounce terrorism. They voiced concern that all Muslims may become unfairly stereotyped as terrorists as violence around the world continues. They also proclaimed their love for the United States and denounced those who have attempted to "hijack" their religion. "Today we all come together to make a statement," said Saud Anwar of South Windsor, president of the Connecticut chapter of the Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee. "Terrorists are our enemies as...

Lodi, San Joaquin County -- After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, angry people threw eggs and shouted insults at the Pak-Indian Spices Grocery store downtown. After the arrest here this week of two Pakistani American men and the detention of two Pakistani Muslim religious leaders, Mohammed Shoaib, 53, a shopkeeper, fears another backlash. "People don't know who's who and what's what," said Shoaib, who immigrated here as a child, following his father, who had followed his uncle, who arrived here in the 1930s. Many Pakistani Americans were shaken Wednesday, some convinced that the arrests were the result of a...

Raids stun close-knit Pakistani community Several years ago, Imam Muhammed Adil Khan of the Lodi mosque signed a "Declaration of Peace" with a rabbi and a Christian minister. The declaration condemned terrorism by religious fanatics of all faiths.Over the weekend, Khan - known to local Muslim leaders as an honorable man who often reached out to other faiths - reportedly was caught in an FBI sweep that has struck fear into many of Lodi's 2,500 Pakistani Americans.Basim Elkarra, executive director of the Sacramento Valley chapter of CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), said Khan was one of several local Muslim...

US citizenship of a Muslim now meaningless By Khalid Hasan Washington: America has been described as “a place where citizenship by immigration now has no value and can be taken away. Muslims, and specially Pakistani Americans, who represent the highest quality of professionals that came to America as immigrants, are being insulted daily at the US airports. Jobs are being denied and other forms of discrimination are taking place everywhere.” According to Pervaiz Lodhie, a successful Pakistani-American technology entrepreneur and community activist based in California, the Muslim community and especially Pakistani Americans will be critical in rebuilding broken bridges between...

Coalition of Pakistani Americans is holding a press conference on Oct 14 (Thursday) to support John Kerry in the presidential election. Dr Khalid Luqman the convener of coalition speaking to Online said Kerry believes in protecting civil liberties . He said unlike President Bush, Kerry will not target Pakistanis for sure. He said it was unfortunate that despite of Pakistan being in front line of war against terrorism Pakistanis in United States were targeted and 1670 Pakistanis were deported back to their motherland. A large number of Pakistanis were arrested and Luqman said a number of Pakistanis are still in...

A Queens man has admitted meeting with a high-ranking member of al-Qaida in Pakistan in a scheme to smuggle money, night-vision goggles and other equipment to the terrorist network, officials confirmed Tuesday. The terror suspect, Mohammed Junaid Babar, secretly pleaded guilty in June to multiple charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization. He agreed to cooperate with authorities as part of a plea deal. According to a court transcript made public on Tuesday, Babar told a judge he met with an unidentified al-Qaida official earlier this year in South Waziristan, a tribal area near the border of Afghanistan....

Daily Times - Site Edition Monday, July 26, 2004 Pakistani moneybags raise funds for Kerry By Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON: Pakistani banking and investment expatriate tycoons in America ? many of them said to be friends of Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz from his banking days - are donating generously to Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry, sources told Daily Times on Sunday. Sources said that at a recent fund-raiser for John Kerry in New York, Pakistani donors outmatched Indian donors by giving more than half a million dollars. Observers say this is seen as a bid to maintain goodwill for...

Indian American Bobby Jindal appears to be calling the shots once again. The hardcore Republican, who is locked in a grim battle for governorship of Louisiana, has stolen a march over Democratic rival Kathleen Blanco in some of the latest opinion polls. “Race far from over, but Jindal has five-point lead over Democrat Blanco,” headlined ‘The Town Talk’ after a poll commissioned by Louisiana Gannett newspapers over the past week. Its finding: 48 per cent for Jindal, 43 per cent for Blanco and 9 per cent undecided. Pollster Brad Coker, in a qualified comment, said: “It looks like it is...

<p>Posted on November 10, 2003 Republican Bobby Jindal's campaign to become the first Indian-American governor in American history has touched a nerve with some Pakistani-Americans, who are lining up to support Democrat Kathleen Blanco of Lafayette in Saturday's runoff.</p> <p>The support culminated during an Oct. 21 fund-raiser for Blanco in Lake Charles sponsored by the Pakistani-American Business Association of Louisiana, which gave Blanco $50,000 for her campaign.</p>