The men and three relatives had been in Pakistan for more than four years and tried to return to the United States on April 21 as a federal jury in Sacramento deliberated Hayat's fate. But they were pulled aside during a layover in Hong Kong and told there was a problem with their passports, said Julia Harumi Mass, their attorney.

The father and son were forced to pay for a flight back to Islamabad because they were on the government's "no-fly" list, Mass said. Muhammad Ismail's wife, teenage daughter and younger son, who were not on the list, continued on to the United States.

These guys should either be charged or allowed to come home. Hey! I know! Let's reopen the concentration camps we stuck the japs in in WWII! We've got a test version already operating down in Gitmo, we should have a pretty good idea of how to do it by now.