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In 2006, federal judge Garland E. Burrell sentenced Hamid Hayat of Lodi, California, to 24 years in prison for, as the U.S. Department of Justice explained, “a series of terrorism charges related to his 2003/2004 attendance at a jihadi training camp in Pakistan and his 2005 return to the United States with the intent to wage violent jihad.” As prosecutors charged, the man with “a jihadi heart and a jihadi mind” intended to target hospitals, banks and grocery stores. Hayat boasted about giving money to Sipah-e-Sahaba, a group that Pakistan declared a terrorist organization. The case was one the first...

ISLAMABAD - Tashfeen Malik - who the FBI says pledged allegiance on Facebook to the Islamic State before helping her husband kill 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif. - was born in Saudi Arabia to a middle-class Pakistani family mainly associated with agriculture or private businesses. Her father, Gulzak Malik, previously lived in the Karor Lal Esan locality of District Layyah in Pakistan's tumultuous Southern Punjab province. Tashfeen Malik, 27 years old when she was killed Wednesday in a rented SUV in a shootout with law enforcement, went to that province several years ago to study pharmacy in Multan city...

"Pakistan: 5 Christians shot to death coming out of church following threats from "banned" jihadist groups" SNIPPET: "SUKKUR, Pakistan, July 29 (CDN) -- A dozen masked men shot five Christians to death as they came out of their church building here on July 15, two months after a banned Islamic extremist group sent church leaders a threatening letter, relatives said. Pastor Aaron John and church members Rohail Bhatti, Salman John, Abid Gill and Shamin Mall of Full Gospel Church were leaving the church building after meeting to discuss security in light of the threats they had received..."

SIHALA, Pakistan (AP) — The leader of a banned Muslim extremist group blamed in the deaths of hundreds of people was released Wednesday by Pakistani authorities, who said they have no evidence to continue holding him. Maulana Azam Tariq, whose pro-Taliban group, Sipah-e-Sahaba, has been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, had been detained for 13 months without being formally charged. A Lahore appeals court ruled Monday that the government would have to release him if it could not produce evidence against him. ``We do not have any case against him and we have set him free as...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/31/02 - Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Solo BREAKING: PROTALIBAN TERRORIST RELEASED BREAKING: ISLAMIC TERRORIST TAKEN BREAKING: BALI PERP SKETCHES RELEASED THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE UGLY Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Islamabad, Pakistan, Azam Tariq of the pro-Taliban Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan party released Solo, Java, Abu Bakar Bashir taken to Jakarta ========= Sulaymanyah, free Iraq ========= THE GOOD In Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK, women fight for their freedom. ========= Barda Qaraman ========= In Barda Qaraman, ~22 miles south of Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK are refugees who...