Cocktail: The Deadly Combination (2007)

Directed by

Maninder Bhandari

Genre

horror

Country

India

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers five Muslim American men from the Washington D.C. suburbs who were detained in Pakistan on suspicion of terrorism. It follows their detention and trial for planning to fight against American forces in Afghanistan.

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What happens

The D.C. Five is a group of Muslim Americans from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., with suspected ties to terrorism. The five men were detained on December 9, 2009, during a police raid in Pakistan on a house with links to a militant group. In part of an increasing trend in homegrown terrorism, they were in their late teens or early twenties. Early in the ongoing investigation, officials described them as en route to fight against American forces in Afghanistan. The police chief of Sargodha said that the men had been in contact with local militant groups since August 2009 and had offered their assistance in unspecified attacks. They were not initially accused of a crime. They had been missing from their home area for approximately a month prior to their detention. On June 24, 2010, the five men were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment; both the defense and the prosecution are planning to appeal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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