AdvertisingWhile in Texas, the FBI charged a teenager with using social media to recruit people on behalf of the LeT. “Encarnacion allegedly attempted to travel to Pakistan to join a foreign terrorist organization and conspired with another individual to provide that organization with material support,” said Assistant Attorney General John Demers. “These organisations are using the internet and social media to appeal to the most barbaric impulses in people, and train them to kill,” Sweeney Jr. added. Meanwhile, Sewell, who encouraged and recruited an individual to join the LeT hails from Fort Worth city and met the man. AdvertisingThe co-conspirator then contacted the facilitator and made arrangements to travel to Pakistan, the criminal complaint said.

Source: Indian Express February 09, 2019 00:33 UTC