Md. Man Charged With Terrorism Conspiracy {Trained in Pakistan }

BALTIMORE -- Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a Maryland man with conspiracy to provide information to terrorists.

The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York said Thursday afternoon that Mahmud Faruq Brent, also known as Mahmud Al Mutazzim, is in federal custody in New York. He was arrested Thursday in Newark, N.J.

Brent, of Baltimore, faces charges of conspiring to provide resources to Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been linked to bombings in India, from 2001 through the current year.

Federal authorities, along with the Baltimore Joint Terrorism Task Force, searched Brent's northwest Baltimore residence following the arrest.

Federal documents accuse Brent of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and associating with a suspect linked to al-Qaida, who was charged in May in another terror case, reported Baltimore TV station WBAL.

The station reported that sources said Thursday's arrest was not linked to the terror investigations currently under way in London.

Prosecutors said Brent attended a terrorist training camp run by Lashkar, a federally designated terrorist organization, in Pakistan. That's where, prosecutors allege, Brent trained in martial arts with Tarik Shah, who was indicted in New York on similar charges.

According to prosecutors, Shah had in his possession an address book containing contact information. Authorities said they found among the contacts phone numbers for "Mahmud Almutazzim" and "Sayfullah."

According to telephone records, Brent's wife subscribed to the Almutazzim phone number at their Baltimore residence. Sources told WBAL that Brent lived at that residence for some time and had worked as a paramedic for a firm in Silver Spring, Md., as recently as last November.

The house is under repair and neighbors told WBAL that authorities raided the residence Thursday. The state also said federal authorities searched another address linked to Brent in Prince George's County.

Prosecutors connected the phone number listed to "Sayfullah" to an address known to have been used by a person named Seifullah Chapman. He was recently convicted in eastern Virginia on multiple terrorism and gun charges in connection to the Virginia Jihad Network prosecutions.

Prosecutors said Shah revealed during a recorded FBI telephone conversation the identities of several of his martial arts students whom he trained in Afghanistan and Yemen.

They said the identities included Mahmud Al Mutazzim, Brent's surname. In that call, prosecutors said, Shah allegedly told the undercover FBI agent that he intended to enlist Al Mutazzim to prepare a demonstration video to train jihad students in martial arts.

Upon his arrest on May 28, prosecutors said, Shah provided more information about his relationship with Al Mutazzim. He said he trained Al Mutazzim in martial arts when they both lived in Beacon, N.Y., in 2001, according to authorities.

Authorities said Shah told them that during that time, he introduced Al Mutazzim to Chapman. Shah later agreed to meet Brent at a Columbia hotel, during which time, Brent allegedly discusses with Shah hardships in communicating with the training camps.

Prosecutors said Brent allegedly explained the difficulty he encountered while trying to travel to the training camps

A lot of terrorist cases seem to link to Malcolm X , too, including the Tarik Shah mentioned above. Other info on him:

Sabir, also described as “the Doctor,” pledged to provide medical assistance to terrorists in Saudi Arabia who couldn’t visit hospitals, the statement said. Both men had staked out possible training centers for terrorists, including a Long Island warehouse, and had a list of possible recruits, some who already had traveled overseas to attend training camps in the Middle East, officials said in the complaint.
One name on the list confiscated by officials was that of Seifullah Chapman, a member of the Virginia Jihad Network, convicted in Virginia in 2004 for supporting terrorists and sentenced to 85 years in prison.
[Tarik] Shah allegedly had traveled to Phoenix, Ariz., to recruit for al-Qaida. He and Sabir also had attempted to travel to Afghanistan for training in 1998, the statement said. In their bid to be recruited by the undercover agent, officials said, Shah and Sabir took a loyalty oath and “committed themselves to the path of Holy War.”————— 16 posted on 05/29/2005 10:50:38 PM PDT by kcvl

Kelley said [Tarik] Shah - son of Lieutenant X, one of Malcolm X’s top aides - even bragged to an undercover FBI agent and a federal informant that he could kill with prayer beads. ...Officials said Shah, who also went by the names Tarik Jenkins and Abu Musab, took steps to find a secret location in the New York area to house a terror training camp. “At one point, in the company of the [informant], Shah allegedly inspected a warehouse on Long Island to determine its suitability as a training facility,” said the statement... -——— “Two busted in Al Qaeda plot in U.S.,” by ROBERT F. MOORE and BILL HUTCHINSONWith Kerry Burke, Tamer El-Ghobashy, James Gordon Meek and Greg B. Smith, NY Daily News, May 30 2005

I found this while looking up cases linked to Silver Spring Md. after yesterday’s Ft Hood shooting which also involved a man with ties to the Silver Spring area.

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