Maryland Man Arrested for Conspiring to Support Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) (updated with DOJ complaint & press release)
By Andrew Cochran
WBAL in Baltimore & AP: "Federal authorities have arrested a west Baltimore man for allegedly providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. attorney's office in New York announced Thursday. Mahmud Faruq Brent of Gwynn Oak is accused in a criminal complaint of conspiring to support the Lashkar-e-Taiba between 2001 through May 2005 by attending a terrorist training camp the group ran in Pakistan." For a profile on LeT, see Evan Kohlmann's May 6 post on the group, including a link to his extended profile of the group. In that post, Evan wrote, "Over the past two decades, the virulently anti-American founders of LET--including a well-known Saudi Al-Qaida member--have allowed their organization to serve as a recruiting and training mechanism for foreign terrorists based in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Kashmir--including several American, British, and Australian Muslim converts." UPDATE: LeT is the group which the "Virginia paintball gang" joined and with which they were undergoing terror training in Pakistan. Brent's phone records apparently include a phone number at an address known to have been used by Seifullah Chapman, one of the convicted paintballers. Also recall that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the young wannabe jihadist arrested in northern Virginia in February, knew members of the paintball gang.
UPDATE 2: Here are the Justice Department complaint and press release (Acrobat files)
Download brent_84_press_release.pdf
Download brent_84_complaint.pdf
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