Feds Charge Man As Enemy Combatant Supporting Terrorism For Uploading Youtube Video

(Reuters) -

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He was accused of posting in September 2010 on YouTube a propaganda video backing LeT, an anti-Indian militant group with historically close ties to Pakistan's top spy agencies.

Jubair communicated with the son of an LeT leader about making the video, which included images of the leader, "jihadi martyrs and armored trucks exploding after having been hit by improvised explosive devices," prosecutors said.

When confronted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents last month with the video, he falsely denied seeing it previously, according to an affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint.

The group has been accused of being behind the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans.

Jubair received religious training from LeT as a teenager in Pakistan and later attended LeT's basic training camp, according to an affidavit filed in federal court in Virginia.

He entered the United States in 2007 along with other family members, and in 2009 the FBI launched an investigation after receiving information Jubair might be associated with LeT, prosecutors said.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky and Jerry Norton; Editing by Greg McCune)