Robert Spencer wrote about this story back in February.
A 29-year-old New York City man has been arrested while he was about to catch a flight to Pakistan to join the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in a dangerous sign that the Pakistan-based terror group, which carried out the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, has expanded its tentacles in the US.
In another instance of growing influence of the LeT in the US and radicalisation of American youths, a teenager in Texas was charged by the FBI with using social media to recruit people on behalf of the terror group and send them to Pakistan for terrorist training….
In the southern state of Texas, 18-year-old Michael Kyle Sewell was charged by the FBI with using social media to recruit people on behalf of the LeT and send them to Pakistan for terrorist training.
“Still another example of a convert to Islam getting the crazy idea that his new religion required him to commit treason and mass murder,” Robert wrote then.
Now Sewell has pleaded guilty.
Michael Kyle Sewell, 18, of Arlington, who was arrested in February, pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing contact information for someone he believed could help another person travel to Pakistan to join Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group believed to be a terrorist organization also known as LeT, a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Sewell admitted to encouraging a person on social media, identified in court documents only as “co-conspirator 1,” to join LeT, the release said.
Sewell could face the maximum 20-year sentence in federal prison. He also faces a fine of up to $250,000. Sewell is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 12 in Fort Worth.
It’s clearly not the general profile of the group that attracted Sewell. Which suggests that someone in his new Islamic community may have turned him on to LeT.
gravenimage says
Teen Muslim Convert Pleads Guilty to Aiding Jihadists
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Another bloody convert to the “religion of peace”…
alex reid says
This is treason. He is aiding enemies of the USA – foreign & domestic. Authorities should apply the Death Penalty. See if anybody else wants to join this Fascistic ideology.
No Muzzies Here says
In a world in which minds were free to think rational and logical thoughts, rational and logical individuals would be calling attention to the fact that recent converts to a religion often seek to put into practice all the dictates of their new religion, and that some religions dictate violence, and that others don’t.
Mary Lunn (Powers) (@MaryLunn1776) says
They should have let him go and then reminded his American citizenship and not let him return. This is the only way we will keep Americans safe. Once these clowns turn to the Muslim cult and become radicalized they are a ticking time bomb.-
peter says
Apparently these converts are people of extremely low IQ and fit in well with Islam because Islam does not welcome any body who can think for themselves .