An official of the Foreign Office on Friday said that they came to know about the arrest of a Bangladeshi born American citizen in central Texas on charge of terrorist activities, including ‘committing violent jihad’.
“We came to know about the arrest of the Bangladeshi born American citizen from media reports yesterday. But we have not yet received any message in this regard from our embassy in Washington,” said the official of the foreign office.
He said our embassy is studying the matter and
hopefully, it will inform us in detail in the shortest possible time. Then we will come up with the detail, he added.
Rahatul Ashikim Khan of the Austin suburb of Round Rock and Michael Todd Wolfe of Austin, both 23, face up to 15 years in federal prison if convicted of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, according to the federal Justice Department and the Central Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force. Both men were arrested Tuesday and have a hearing scheduled Friday.
Khan is accused of conspiring to recruit people in 2011 to travel overseas to support terrorist activities. Wolfe planned to travel to Syria to help radical groups fighting there, according to the criminal complaints filed against them.
Khan is a full-time University of Texas student who said in an online chat room that he was recruiting fighters for “jihad,” an Arabic term sometimes used to mean holy war, the complaint said. He was born in Bangladesh but became a US citizen in 2002.
