Raja Lahrasib Khan, a native of Pakistan who became a naturalised US citizen in 1988, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, the department said in a statement.
When Khan, 58, was arrested in March 2010, officials said he never posed any imminent danger to the United States and had personally sent only a few hundred dollars to an alleged terrorist leader.
But authorities said his plea indicated he wanted to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda.
Khan faces a maximum of 15 years in prison but under his plea agreement the sentence will be between five and eight years in jail, and requires him to cooperate with the government. Sentencing is set for May 30.
Khan, who lived in the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan before coming to the US in the late 1970s, admitted that he met Ilyas Kashmiri.
Officials said that during a 2008 meeting, Kashmiri told Khan that Osama bin Laden was alive, healthy and giving orders. Khan gave Kashmiri Rs20,000, which he intended Kashmiri to use to support attacks against India.
In 2009, Khan sent the equivalent of $930 from Chicago to an individual in Pakistan, with instructions to give $300 to Kashmiri, according to justice officials. Although Khan intended the funds to be used by Kashmiri to support attacks against India, he was also aware Kashmiri was working with al Qaeda.
Khan met in 2010 with an undercover law enforcement agent who posed as someone interested in sending money to Kashmiri, which led to his arrest.
At the time of his arrest, authorities said Kashmiri, the leader in Kashmir of Harakatul Jihad alIslami, which is on the US State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organisations, was looking for operatives in America.
Khan was recorded telling the agent that he was going to ask Kashmiri to teach him how to plot an attack on a stadium.
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torture indeed is used as na interrogation method, when the inmate makes a deal with the govt to plead guilty for a reduced term one of the agreement he makes is not to divulge anything pertaining to the deal, interrogation techniques, any injury he might have sustained. There have been documented cases so please dont teach us law here one more thing waterboarding was just an example, techniques employed broadl vary. No these things are not as casually leaked as they like to slip 'confidential' reports on ISI's alleged involvement with 'terrorist' outfits
@Dr Khan: To the best of my understanding of the US legal system and Police/FBI interrogation, No physical torture let alone Waterboarding is used on "American Citizens" arrested in the USA. Such torture will make headlines in all US news papers and World Press. Lawyers would love if that happens to make $$$ by filing lawsuits. All civil groups will be up in arms against Police and FBI. One can just refuse to answer any question and ask for lawyer. Yes authorities may indulge in tough psychological pressure backed by evidences (In presence of the lawyer if asked) that may lead to confession especially by those who did commit such crime Waterboarding was used by CIA outside the US Civil judicial system on People arrested in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Poor guy.......using traditional methods in tech savvy country......
just put him in jail rest of his life. beat, torture him brutally as these people does on others. pakistan is shining again