A man who has pleaded guilty in the case of an alleged “jihad network” testified Wednesday that the group began playing paintball to learn self-defense, but the games became more intense as some members used them for military training. Donald Surratt, 31, said the change came after one member returned from a 2000 trip to Pakistan, where he trained with a militant Islamic organization that has since been labeled as terrorist by the U.S. government. The group as a whole never discussed using the games as a means to train and join the organization, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Surratt testified at the trial of four other men in the paintball-playing group. But, he said, the increasing intensity of the games and their use by some as training for holy war caused him and others to re-evaluate the games’ propriety. Full Story
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