I have been following the case of two Pakistani men, father and son, in Lodi, California who have been charged with making false statements to the FBI. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5J1.DTL The media often call these “terror related charges”, but the government is apparently not prosecuting charges of terrorist activities. The government alleges that the son attended an Al Qaeda training camp in the capital of Pakistan and then falsely denied this to the FBI. The father is charged with denying that his son attended the camp. Pakistan denies that there are Al Qaeda training camps in or around its capital. Experts agree that the scenario laid out by the FBI is unlikely.
Why wouldn’t the government charge the son with the underlying offense, assuming that attendance of the facility in question violates US law? Does US ally Pakistan tolerate terror training camps right under the nose of its security forces?
This case smacks of a witch hunt.
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