Another Pakistani-American has been arrested in connection with a terror plot in the U.S.

This time, it’s 34-year-old Farooque Ahmed of Ashburn, Virginia.

The U.S. Justice department said Ahmed was arrested today for attempting to assist others whom he believed to be members of al-Qaeda in planning multiple bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington, D.C., area.

It seems the FBI was aware of Ahmed’s activities from before the alleged attempt began and closely monitored his activities until his arrest.

If convicted, Ahmed faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison.

Here are details of the alleged DC Metro bombing plot from the U.S. Justice Department:

According to the indictment, from April 2010 through Oct. 25, 2010, Ahmed attempted to assist others whom he believed to be members of al-Qaeda in planning multiple bombings to cause mass casualties at Metrorail stations. On April 18, 2010, Ahmed allegedly drove to a hotel in Dulles, Va., and met with a courier he believed to be affiliated with a terrorist organization who provided Ahmed with a document that provided potential locations at which future meetings could be arranged. On or about May 15, 2010, at a hotel in Herndon, Va., Ahmed allegedly agreed to watch and photograph another hotel in Washington, D.C., and a Metrorail station in Arlington, Va., to obtain information about their security and busiest periods.

According to the indictment, Ahmed allegedly participated in surveillance and recorded video images of Metrorail stations in Arlington, Va., on four occasions. On or about July 19, 2010, in a hotel room in Sterling, Va., Ahmed allegedly handed a memory stick containing video images of a Metrorail station in Arlington to an individual whom Ahmed believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda. On that same day, Ahmed allegedly agreed to assess the security of two other Metrorail stations in Arlington as locations of terrorist attacks.

The indictment further alleges that, on or about Sept. 28, 2010, in a hotel room in Herndon, Ahmed handed a USB drive containing images of two Metrorail stations in Arlington to an individual whom Ahmed believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda.

According to the indictment, on or about Sept. 28, 2010, Ahmed provided to an individual whom he believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda diagrams that Ahmed drew of three Metrorail stations in Arlington and provided suggestions as to where explosives should be placed on trains in Metrorail stations in Arlington to kill the most people in simultaneous attacks planned for 2011.

Of course, indictments are only charges and not evidence of guilt. And a defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty.

Not the First
But Farooque Ahmed is not the first Pakistani-American charged with involvement in a terror plot in the U.S. in recent months.

In May this year, a Pakistani American Faisal Shahzad was arrested in a plot to set off a car bomb in the busy Times Square area in New York City.

Faisal was recently sentenced to life in prison.

Despite receiving billions of dollars in aid from the U.S., a majority of Pakistanis view America as an enemy.

The question we have is do Pakistanis immigrants in America feel the same?

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