Five American men sentenced last week to serve 10 years in prison on terrorism charges appealed against their conviction in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday, their defence lawyer said. "Ummm... Really. We've decided we don't wanna be terrorists no more. Can we go home now?"
The five Americans,
... Tom, Dick, Harry, Chuck, and Brad...
who were of Egyptian, Eritrean, Pakistani and Yemeni descent and are aged from 19 to 25, were sentenced on Thursday for contacting terrorists online and plotting attacks. "We believe all evidence we produced in their defence were not considered by the court and it relied on prosecution witnesses," defence lawyer Hassan Katchela said. The appeal will be heard by the LHC, but no date has been set for the hearing. Waqar Hussain Khan, Ahmed Minni, Ramy Zamzam, Aman Yemer and Umar Farooq were each charged with five counts of conspiracy, raising funds for terrorist acts, planning war against Pakistan, directing others to launch attacks and attempting to cross the Afghan border illegally. Deputy Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar said the men were convicted on two counts each.