http://articles.philly.com/2012-03-05/news/31124503_1_jihad-jane-plea-hearing-fbi-agents
“MD. teen plans guilty plea in terror case in Pa.”
March 05, 2012|FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
SNIPPET: “A Maryland student accused of conspiring with the Montgomery County woman known as “Jihad Jane” plans to plead guilty.
Court papers filed Monday show that Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 18, is due in court in Philadelphia next month for a change-of-plea hearing, the Associated Press reported.
Born in Pakistan, Khalid was an honors student living with his family in Ellicott City, outside Baltimore, and planning to attend Johns Hopkins University when FBI agents arrested him in July.”
SNIPPET: “He and LaRose met online in a jihadist chat room when Khalid was 15, sources told The Inquirer. The indictment said he was actively trying to solicit donations and help plan a jihad.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3567/maryland-man-pleads-guilty-in-terror-plot
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For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Maryland Man Pleads Guilty in Terror Plot”
by Abha Shankar • May 4, 2012 at 5:11 pm
SNIPPET: “A Maryland teenager of Pakistani origin pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 18, was charged in October along with Algerian-born Ali Charaf Damache, aka “The blackflag” in connection with a scheme to support, recruit, and coordinate a terrorist cell to wage violent jihad in Europe.
“Today’s plea, which involved a radicalized teen in Maryland who connected with like-minded individuals around the globe via the Internet, underscores the evolving nature of violent extremism today,” Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, said in a Justice Department press release.
Court records show that Khalid and Damache conspired with Colleen R. LaRose (also known as “Jihad Jane”), Jamie Paulin Ramirez, and others to develop “a violent jihad organization … divided into a planning team, a research team, an action team, a recruitment team, and a finance team, some of whom would travel to South Asia for explosives training and return to Europe to wage violent jihad.”
LaRose pleaded guilty in February 2011 to plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist and to recruiting people to wage terrorist attacks. She faces up to life in prison. Ramirez pleaded guilty the following month to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
In addition to recruiting jihadist online, Khalid and others also solicited funds for terrorists and recruited women who could use Western passports to travel to Europe in support of their jihadi objectives.”