The Washington Post has an update on the trial against five young Muslim men from Alexandria who were arrested in Pakistan in December on charges of conspiracy against the United States. Yesterday, the Post reports, the Alexandria men launched their defense. While Pakistani authorities say the men plotted to wage jihad against Americans at home and abroad, the men — whose ages range from 18 to 25 — insist this is just a big misunderstanding. Far from waging jihad, they claim, they left their homes, families, schools, and jobs in NoVA to save Afghani orphans. They were inspired after watching the 2007 film adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. This is a difficult peg to hang a defense on, since no young men would in fact read or watch The Kite Runner. The Post goes on to say that court records show that the men — one of whom produced a goodbye video featuring images of the U.S. wars in the Muslim world — contacted a known al Qaeda figure through “social-networking Web sites.” Fucking Facebook makes everything public!