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Posted on 06/16/2006 1:54:18 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Six statements by a Georgia Tech student arrested on terrorism-related charges should be thrown out because of false promises and implied threats from investigators, the man's attorney said in court filings Thursday.
Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, talked to FBI agents after being told he would not be arrested if he cooperated. Ahmed did talk — six interviews over a week's time — and then was arrested, his court-appointed attorney Jack Martin said.
The agents also "prey[ed] on the defendant's devotion to Islam" to gain his trust and cooperation, he said.
"Office [Khalid] Sediqui, who revealed that he was a devout Muslim himself, stated 'Allah does not want you to go to jail. I want you to help us,' " the motion states.
Sediqui told Ahmed if he answered the investigators' questions, "then we are going to leave you alone," the motion states.
Ahmed gave more than 12 hours of statements, totaling 400 pages of transcripts, and identified photographs and videos. On March 23, he was indicted on a charge of providing material support to terrorists.
Another Georgia man, Ehsanul Sadequee, 19, of Roswell, a friend of Ahmed's, was arrested in April while traveling in Bangladesh. The two men allegedly took a Greyhound bus to Toronto in March 2005 to meet with "like-minded extremists" and plot "strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike."
The men allegedly made contact with two of the 17 suspects arrested this month in Toronto on terrorism charges, according to documents filed in Canadian court.
The two men also allegedly discussed traveling to Pakistan to receive military-style training. Prosecutors say Ahmed tried to do that last summer.
In April 2005, a month after the Canada visit, the two allegedly shot some "casing videos" of sites in Washington.
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Did they put panties on his head?
Don't these guys watch Law and Order?
Terror Strike Toronto ( Aborted! )-- Click the picture:
Flush the roaches down the pot....
The agent was using the time-honored Muslim technique of kitman: mental reservation and dissimulation or concealment of malevolent intentions. As the treacherous prophet said, "he who keeps secrets shall soon attain his objectives."
Turnabout is fair play.
Oh cry me a rivah.
Likely the lawyer is trying to infuence the jury pool. It may be legal, but "it isn't fair"(tm). More and more we see these sort of cases tried in the press, with the LEO made to look bad.
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