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Three U.S. citizens were arrested Saturday on federal charges that they provided $50,000 and other material support to the Pakistani Taliban.

Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, imam at the Flagler Mosque in Miami, and one of his sons, Izhar Khan, 24, an imam at the Jamaat Al-Mu'mineen Mosque in Margate, Fla., were arrested after morning services in Florida. Another son, Irfan Khan, 37, was being held in a Los Angeles hotel. 

The men, originally from Pakistan, are U.S. citizens. The four-count indictment doesn't charge the mosques with wrongdoing, according to a Justice Department statement. 

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