Posted on 08/06/2005 12:38:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The federal charges lodged this week against Mahmud F. Brent read like a thriller, filled with tales of a clandestine FBI sting operation in a Maryland hotel room, terrorism training camps in the mountains of Pakistan and shadowy connections to al-Qaida.
.....According to court papers, Brent, a 30-year-old West Baltimore man who drove a cab in Washington, conspired to help the armed wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based religious organization labeled a terrorist group by the U.S. government.
Brent, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Orange, N.J., outside Newark on Thursday afternoon and brought to New York. About the same time, FBI agents raided his house on Gwynn Oak Avenue.
Brent, also known as Mahmud Al Mutazzim, is alleged to have attended a terrorist camp in Pakistan and taken martial-arts training in trying to assist Lashkar-e-Taiba, which roughly translates to "Army of the Righteous."
But one federal law enforcement official with knowledge of the case said, "We may not [ever] know the impact" of Brent's arrest.
......Federal authorities allege that Brent received martial-arts training in upstate New York from Shah, a Bronx jazz musician who is under indictment with Sabir in the Southern District of New York.
Shah and Sabir are friends from their days in the Nation of Islam 30 years ago in Harlem, according to Stolar. An attorney for Shah did not return phone calls yesterday.
.....Gunaratna said experts and government officials worry about a trend toward "terrorist support cells ... mutating and transforming into terrorism execution cells."
He said the threat is serious and the United States has focused too narrowly on al-Qaida and Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
"The threats posed by Asian groups must not be underestimated," Gunaratna said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
End of story. Lock him up for life.
Bump!
Not here in the U.S.
The LE technique is perfect, because it works. Bouncing suspects in and out of court and jail may not actually stop them from further terrorist acts, but they'll be so paranoid of wire-tapping, the Patriot Act, etc, that their confidence of successfully carrying out or participating in a terrorist act will be severely diminished. Just one more tickle of bad stuff and they're gone.
New Jersey might be OK.
I hope the Homeland Security network is humming along.
Oopsie!
3 IRA-linked fugitives back in Ireland - Trained FARC in Columbia - hid out in Venezuela/Cuba
Ping
Hey! I heard that!
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