SARGODHA: Anti terror court sentenced five US citizens arrested under terror charges imprisonment of 10 years each here on Thursday. They were arrested in 2009.
The U.S. citizens, aged 19 to 25 at the time of their arrest, have been on trial since being detained on charges they sought terrorist training from Taliban guerrillas in militant strongholds near the border with Afghanistan.
Two are of Pakistani descent, two of Ethiopian origin and one of Egyptian background. All are friends from the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.
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