AUGUST 2005 : (MD : ARREST OF M F BRENT aka MAHMUD AL MUTAZZIM HAS BEEN ARRESTED -- See BALTIMORE CELL, NY JAZZ MUSICIAN TARIK SHAH, LeT, VA JIHAD/PAINTBALL CELL) NEW YORK-- A Maryland paramedic has been arrested by U.S. federal authorities on charges of conspiring to provide material support to a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group linked to terrorist attacks in India and the disputed region of Kashmir.
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 [2005] 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. --- CNN , AUGUST 5, 2005 VIA http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/nyregion/05arrest.html
AUGUST 4, 2005 : (M F BRENT aka MAHMUD AL MUTAZZIM IS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO HELP A TERRORIST ORG -- See LeT, TARIK SHAH) NEW YORK -- A Washington, D.C., cab driver [Brent] was charged Thursday with conspiracy to help a terrorist organization after boasting he went to terrorist training camps in Pakistan and agreed to help however he could, prosecutors said Thursday. Mahmud Faruq Brent, of Gwynn Oak, Md., was charged after a New York musician [Tarik Shah] 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. -----By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer, August 4, 2005, 9:37 PM EDT
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.... 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 [05]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. -----??By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer, August 4, 2005, 9:37 PM EDT Article here ??? ------?/By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer, August 4, 2005, 9:37 PM EDT
OCTOBER 2005 : (PAKISTAN : HOME TURF OF LeT SUFFERS EARTHQUAKE -- SEE JAMAAT UD DAWA CHARITY, LONDON AIRLINE PLOT)
JULY 2006 : (BOMBAY, INDIA : BOMBAY TRAIN BOMBINGS - See LASHKAR E TAIBA) LET was also accused in the Bombay train bombings in India last month. It has significant resources in Pakistan, Britain, and elsewhere. ------ "Don't LET Up: The transatlantic air plot and the problem of British Islam," Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, Aug 10/06
AUGUST 2006 : (LONDON AIRLINER PLOT / TRANSATLANTIC PLOT-FOILED; LINKED TO HAFIZ MOHAMMAD SAEED, FOUNDER OF LeT - See LeT, GSPC, RASHID RAUF, ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST PAKISTANI LEADER MUSHARRAF) News from Pakistan itself indicates the main trail from there to Heathrow. British and Pakistani sources linked the plan [2006 LondonAirlinePlot] to the Pakistani government's house arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the armed paramilitary movement Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET, or Army of the Righteous). LET, which is designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, is an ally of al Qaeda and is present wherever Pakistani Sunnis congregate and violence is hatched. ------ "Don't LET Up: The transatlantic air plot and the problem of British Islam," Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, Aug 10/06
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[See London Airline Plot] Pakistani security sources said yesterday that al-Qaida's "number three" was behind the alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic flights leaving the UK. They also suggested Britain wanted to allow the plotters to try a dry run, without explosives, so as to gather more evidence, but was persuaded to intervene earlier by US and Pakistani authorities.
British detectives are in Islamabad working with the Pakistani security services with regard to Rashid Rauf, the Briton held in connection with the alleged plot. No decision has been made as to whether he will be extradited to Britain.
Abu Faraj al-Libbi, who after Osama bin Laden and the Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahiri, is suspected of being al-Qaida's third in command, has been named by Pakistani security sources as the main planner of the alleged plot, according to Dawn, a daily newspaper. He has also been accused of being in a plot to assassinate Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, and was arrested last year and turned over to the US.
--------------(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ..."Pakistan says al-Qaida link to plot found ... number three identified as main planner," by Duncan Campbell in Islamabad, The Guardian (UK), August 17, 2006, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685028/posts
JULY 2006 : (BOMBAY, INDIA : BOMBAY TRAIN BOMBINGS - See LASHKAR E TAIBA) LET was also accused in the Bombay train bombings in India... ------ "Don't LET Up: The transatlantic air plot and the problem of British Islam," Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, Aug 10/06