Posted on 04/02/2007 6:28:46 PM PDT by RDTF
A former D.C. cab driver pleaded guilty today to conspiring to support a Pakistani group on the U.S. terrorism list by attending one of its training camps, officials said.
Mahmud Faruq Brent, of Gwynn Oak, a Baltimore suburb, was arrested in 2005. He had been scheduled to go on trial on April 24 along with two New Yorkers and a Florida doctor.
During a hearing in U.S. federal court in Manhattan, Brent acknowledged that he attended a Lashkar-e-Taiba training camp in 2002, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office in New York. The Islamic guerrilla group is fighting to drive India from the Kashmir region on the border with Pakistan. It was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government in December 2001.
Brent faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail when he is sentenced on July 10. He could have received more than 20 years if he was found guilty in a trial.
Brent, a native of Akron, Ohio, was linked in court papers to Seifullah Chapman, a member of what prosecutors called a "Virginia jihad network." Chapman was sentenced to 65 years in prison for conspiring to support Lashkar-e-Taiba and other offenses. He was among over a dozen local men charged in connection with the "jihad network" case.
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you’re probably already on this :)
But would he transport someone with a bottle of wine in a duty free bag?
Did he used to hang around with John H. Abdullah?
Hey, keep up the good work, RDTF.
Smiling at you.
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How can govt. charge him with terrorism if officially we call Islam the ROP? Are we saying that this man and his pals are simply homicidal maniacs? The disconnect is on the scale of Alice in Wonderland. What’s the tipping point before we stop playing games.
hmmmmm, these “jihad networks”...
Wonder if there is a “Texas jihad network”...
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