Taliban planned to use Americans in Pakistan attacks: Officials

ISLAMABAD: Taliban insurgents had planned to use five Americans, now detained in Pakistan, who had contacted the militants via the Internet, to carry out attacks in the US-allied country, a police official said on Saturday.

Usman Anwar, police chief in Sargodha, where the men were arrested this month, said e-mails had revealed plans for the young men from Virginia to travel to a Pakistani nuclear power plant.

"We believe that they were supposed to be used inside Pakistan," Anwar said by telephone. "In their last e-mail to the Taliban, we found they mentioned the Chashma Nuclear Plant and that's why they were going to Mianwali (district)."