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Satanica

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ARLINGTON, Texas - An 18-year-old former Arlington ISD student has pleaded guilty to trying to support terrorists in Pakistan.

Michael Kyle Sewell pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, also known as LeT.
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Sewell had talked with undercover agents who he thought were members of a terror group and tried to recruit for the organization.
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Sentencing is on Aug 12 and he faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-texas-18-year-old-pleads-guilty-to-supporting-terrorist-group
 
Looks like they also nabbed a co-conspirator with him, although unnamed in this NDT Attorney's report (perhaps due to being a minor?):

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/p...provide-material-support-foreign-terror-group

Wonder which Arlington high school he attended? :oops:

Damn, back when I went to high school in Arlington ISD, the worst things we did was typical '80's teenage stuff like going across the school to hang under a corner oak tree and smoke ciggys during lunch hour, or get a case of beer and a maybe few joints (being under drinking age) after Friday night football games, or for Jr/Sr "skip" days at Lake Grapevine.

Back then, being involved with a terrorist group would have been inconceivable to nearly every high school student in the entire district - and I had good friends from the other district high schools, aside from those at my own school.
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DALLAS - An Arlington teenager was sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting a fellow American to join a Pakistani terror group.
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He posted numerous threats online and his internet search history also suggested he was investigating ways to carry out an attack.

Agents who searched his Arlington home found an AR-15 rifle, multiple magazines and a number of knives in his bedroom, federal prosecutors said.

“This case demonstrates how an American citizen can be radicalized by a violent ideology based upon hate and how the actions of the FBI and our partners on the Joint Terrorism Task Force worked tirelessly to prevent violence here, and abroad. We cannot thank them enough for what they do to protect our community,” said U.S. Attorney Nealy Cox.

Cox said the 20-year sentence proves that justice in the Northern District of Texas can be swift and certain.

 
An American teenage recruiter for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, who had made bigoted statements about Hindus, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to support the foreign terrorist organization.

Another person, Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacion, 29, was arrested at New York's JFK airport as he was about to board a plane on his mission to join the LeT in February.

Although the co-conspirator was not identified in Sewell's case documents, by examining the documents in his and Encarnacion's cases, IANS found parallels that link them.

Encarnacion, who is apparently the co-conspirator, made contact with Sewell through social media and said he wanted to join the Islamic State terror group, according to the documents.

 
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