N.C. drywaller’s punishment was eventually overturned by Pakistan court
RALEIGH, N.C. - American Daniel Patrick Boyd faced a stern punishment after being convicted of robbing a bank in Pakistan: Losing a hand and foot.
He avoided the sentence when his conviction was overturned. Two decades later, the 39-year-old Boyd is accused of organizing a group in the U.S. with international terrorist aspirations, and he faces life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors say Boyd's time in Pakistan also included terrorist training that he brought back to North Carolina, where over the past three years he recruited followers willing to die as martyrs waging jihad — the Arabic word for holy war. Seven members of the group, including Boyd and two adult sons, were arrested Monday and charged with providing material support to terrorism and "conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad."
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Whats religion got to do with bank robbery? To much.
ReplyDeleteFor 6.9 million dollars you could take my eyes.
ReplyDeleteGives new meaning to hand over foot.
ReplyDeleteDang, maybe the first sentence should have been carried out so it would stop his little Jihad. Now, we have to kil... I mean make him watch tv and play ping pong with 3 hots and a cot the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteman imagine how many banks and stores would get robbed here if we started chopping off hands and feet!zero
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