Three Pakistani men have pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle
someone they thought was part of the Pakistani Taliban into the United
States.
Prosecutors say law enforcement agents worked with
confidential sources to ask the three to help get someone they were
told was a member of the terrorist group into the U.S. earlier this
year. The men were living in Ecuador and are accused of getting the
fictitious person a false Pakistani passport.
The three men —
Irfan Ul Haq, Qasim Ali, and Zahid Yousaf — each pleaded guilty in
federal court to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to
a designated foreign terrorist organization. Each faces up to 15 years
in prison at sentencing Dec. 9 and has agreed to be deported to
Pakistan upon release. AP
