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Posted on 08/04/2005 7:20:31 PM PDT by chet_in_ny
A Maryland man was charged with conspiracy to help a terrorist organization after he boasted that he went to Pakistan, attended terrorist training camps and agreed to provide whatever assistance was necessary, prosecutors said Thursday.
Mahmud Faruq Brent, of Gwynn Oak, Md., was charged after a New York musician arrested on similar charges in May agreed to meet with him and let the FBI record the encounter, according to a joint release by federal prosecutors, the FBI and New York police.
Brent was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with conspiracy to provide material support to the Lashkar-e-Taiba organization, which the United States designated a terrorist organization in December 2001.
During the taped conversation at a hotel in Columbia, Md., Brent indicated he had traveled to Pakistan and into the mountains for training ``and stuff'' with ``the mujahideen, the fighters,'' the release said.
(Excerpt) Read more at 1010wins.com ...
This is the second such article and neither mentioned his or others' citizenship. Why does the media always sneak around that issue?
Mahmud Faruq Brent
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"Mahmud Faruq Brent"
Is he a christian convert?
These Islamonazi's don't care about nationality. They believe Islam comes before any loyalty to their country. If they don't care, Why should we.
The man, Mahmud Faruq Brent, was accused of traveling to Pakistan in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to receive training in camps operated by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group loosely affiliated with Al Qaeda whose primary goal is to fight against Indian forces in the disputed province of Kashmir.
The Pakistani group was declared a foreign terrorist organization by the United States in December 2001.
Mr. Brent, who the authorities said also went by the name of Mahmud al Mutazzim, was an associate of Tarik Shah, a New York jazz musician who was arrested on May 28 on terrorism charges in a federal sting operation.
According to a criminal complaint against Mr. Brent that was unsealed yesterday, Mr. Brent, in telephone calls and in at least one meeting, described his stay in the camps to Mr. Shah.
Mr. Brent told Mr. Shah that he had been in the mountains in Pakistan training with "the mujahadeen, the fighters," the complaint says.
Although Mr. Brent has a home in Baltimore, he was arrested in Newark. His home was searched early yesterday afternoon by agents from the Baltimore Joint Terrorism Task Force. He made his first court appearance late yesterday before a magistrate judge in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
The complaint says that Mr. Shah, who was also a martial arts expert, trained Mr. Brent in martial arts when the two men lived in Beacon, N.Y., in 2001 before the Sept. 11 attacks. In recent months, the two men had discussed plans to make a martial arts training video for Muslims in the United States interested in becoming militants, the complaint says.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/nyregion/05arrest.html
BALTIMORE — Federal authorities have arrested a Maryland man in New Jersey 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.
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Shah was allegedly found to be in possession of an address book containing telephone numbers for "Mahmud Almutazzim" and "Sayfullah." Telephone records showed one of the numbers listed for "Almutazzim" was subscribed to by Brent's wife at his home in Gwynn Oak, according to a news release from prosecutors.
Phone records also showed the number listed for "Sayfullah" was subscribed to at an address known to have been used by Seifullah Chapman. He was convicted in Virginia of multiple terrorism and firearms charges.
In a recorded conversation with an undercover FBI agent, Shah allegedly mentioned the names of several students with whom he had studied martial arts and who had gone overseas to training camps in Afghanistan and Yemen, including a "Mahmud Al Mutazzim."
Authorities alleged Shah reported that Al Mutazzim had told him how "difficult" it was to be back in the United States and not to be in training. Shah allegedly said Al Mutazzim could be trusted because he was a longtime student of his who, after leaving school, started "seeking the way to become mujahideen." A mujahideen is a holy warrior.
Shah also allegedly told the undercover agent that he intended to call Al Mutazzim to enlist his help to prepare a demonstration video to be used for martial arts training of jihadists.
He allegedly said that because of "treaties with [President] Bush," it became dangerous for "foreigners" like him to stay in the camps, so he was moved from place to place.
Prosecutors said Brent indicated he would never go back on his decision to go to the camps because it was "one of the better decisions in my life."
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According to a complaint filed by prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Mahmud Faruq Brent of Gwynn Oak, Md., near Baltimore, attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and received martial arts training from Tarik Shah, a New York jazz musician arrested in May on terrorism charges.
The complaint also alleges that Brent, also known as Mahmud Al Mutazzim, had contact with Seifullah Chapman, a member of the so-called "Virginia jihad group" that prosecutors said trained for attacks with paintball guns.
Chapman was found guilty in March 2004, along with two other men, on terrorism and firearms charges, including providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba. He is serving a 65-year prison sentence.
In December 2001, Lashkar-e-Taiba was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government, shortly after the Indian government blamed the group for an attack on the parliament in New Delhi that killed 12 people.
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In 2000, Brent -- using the name Mahmud Al Mutazzim -- requested an expedited passport to travel to a religious conference in Saudi Arabia, to which he attached a "letter of support" from Chapman, the complaint said. The passport showed that Brent arrived in Lahore, Pakistan, on Feb. 25, 2002 -- about five months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- and left on June 4, 2002, the complaint said.
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The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group draws its members mainly from madrasas (religious schools) in Pakistan and veterans of the Afghanistan wars. The organization also has links to the al Qaeda terrorist group.
Mahmud Faruq Brent, of Gwynn Oak, Md., was charged after a New York musician arrested on similar charges in May agreed to meet with him and let the FBI record the encounter, federal prosecutors, the FBI and New York police said in a joint release.
So he was a paramedic/cab driver?
Thanks.......
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