Posted on 04/21/2006 12:19:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student and another man traveled to Canada to meet with Islamic extremists to discuss "strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike," according to an affidavit made public Friday.
Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, both U.S. citizens who grew up in the Atlanta area, met with at least three other targets of ongoing FBI terrorism investigations during a trip to Canada in March 2005, the FBI agent's affidavit said.
The affidavit said the men discussed attacks against oil refineries and military bases and planned to travel to Pakistan to get military training at a terrorist camp, which authorities said Ahmed then tried to do.
Ahmed, who was indicted on suspicion of giving material support of terrorism, was being held at an undisclosed location. The indictment was returned under seal on March 23 and unsealed by the court Thursday.
Ahmed's court-appointed attorney, Jack Martin, did not return messages left seeking comment.
Sadequee, 19, who is accused of making materially false statements in connection with an ongoing federal terrorism investigation, was arrested in Bangladesh and was en route to New York City to be arraigned.
"There is no imminent threat," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman in Washington.
Authorities said the two men spent several days in Canada, where they met with others being investigated by the terrorism task force.
Sadequee is accused of lying about the trip when he was interviewed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in August as he was about to leave for Bangladesh. The affidavit said Sadequee had said he had traveled alone in January to visit an aunt.
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Georgia Tech student....who paid his tuition? Did he get the Hope? Another scholarship?
what a waste.
As a Ramblin' Wreck myself, I ashamed and this sumb*tch should be hung from the Admin building!
Bush's fault... "illegal" wiretappiing.. probably will be civil rights actions over this.
Episcopalians, right?
Amazing that they nab these guys, they must be watching airports with microscopes.
I'll bet they were on the oil company's payroll because then they could GOUGE even higher prices with the excuse that there are few working refineries after these two were done with their jihadist dreams.<====sarc====>
March of ****2005****. What took them so long to arrest them?
Probably watching them and expanding their list of suspects.
How many times do THEY have to tell us until we understand...Its a Religion of PEACE!!! There is no way THEY could have done this!
:-)
They went to Pakistan to get military training?
Dont they know they can get paid to have they best training on Earth here? I have always wondered about that. If I were a domestic terrorist, the first thing I would do is sign up in the Army. Get a desk job MOS and you still get basic training. Or perhaps finish Armor training and steal an Abrams. Ever see that drunk guy in SD that stole an M-60 tank and tore through town? He did not know how to operate the gun, or how to drive it well. If someone did.....never mind the political repercussions of letting an AH-64 Apache loose in a metropolitan area to deal with this. I would definitely do this in a primarily Democratic area just for the fallout.
Probably trying to collect 'enough' evidence to get these SOBs convicted. As it is they will still probably only get a few years in prison IF convicted. Ridiculous but a jury in the Sami al-Arian case basically didn't find him guilty of anything and the government had over a decade of evidence against him. Luckily in that case al-Arian decided to cop to some charge or another instead of going through a retrial(if I have my facts straight) and he is now set to be deported. But in my opinion there need to be more electrocutions and less deportations.
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