Posted on 08/13/2009 4:04:39 PM PDT by La Lydia
An Atlanta jury on Wednesday found a 23-year-old man guilty of aiding terrorist groups after a trial that explored a subculture of youthful extremists who used the Internet to plot attacks and form a loose network connecting North America, Europe and South Asia. Ehsanul Sadequee, the U.S.-born son of Bangladeshi immigrants, faces up to 60 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to materially support terrorists. The jury found that he had discussed attacks with accused militants in Toronto and Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Along with another Georgia man convicted in June, Sadequee drove to Washington in 2005 to film the Pentagon and other potential targets, then e-mailed the scouting videos to British citizens who since have been convicted of terrorism charges...
Born in Virginia, Sadequee exhibited militant sentiments at age 15 while attending an Islamic school in Canada. Soon after Sept. 11, 2001, he sent an e-mail to an extremist website expressing his desire to join the Taliban, Nahmias said.
Sadequee's extremist activity intensified when he met Syed Ahmed, a Pakistani American student at Georgia Tech, at a mosque in Atlanta. The two made contact in Islamic chat rooms with an extremist constellation including the Toronto group; a Bosnian named Mirsad Bektasevic, who lived in Sweden; and Younis Tsouli, a Moroccan diplomat's son living in London whose computer expertise made him a hub of the network...Sadequee seemed eager to discuss his radical ideas and apparently did not realize that a jury was unlikely to sympathize, said Kohlmann...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Somebody get a rope, I’ll go find us a tall tree!
“Ehsanul Sadequee, the U.S.-born son of Bangladeshi immigrants, faces up to 60 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to materially support terrorists.”
Where are all those PC freepers who keep telling us that 2nd generation immigrants assimilate so well???
He’s gonna need a big supply of “Soap no a Rope” for his stay in prison.
Bring back public hangings!
US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release: "ATLANTA DEFENDANT FOUND GUILTY OF SUPPORTING TERRORISTS Ehsanul Islam Sadequee Faces Up to 60 Years in Federal Prison" (August 12, 2009)
AJC.com - THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION: "SUSPECTED ATLANTA TERRORIST DISMISSES ATTORNEYS" by Megan Matteucci (SNIPPET: "Sadequee is accused of making videos of potential targets in Washington, including the World Bank, the Capitol and the Masonic Temple in Alexandria, Va. He sent the videos to a terrorist based in London, according to a federal indictment. Prosecutors said Sadequee also took a Greyhound bus in 2005 to Canada, where he met with several suspected terrorists and talked about attacking oil refineries.") (August 3, 2009, 11:00 pm)
OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "THE TRAINWRECK THAT IS EHSANUL SADEQUEE" (SNIPPET: "For those of you just tuning in, the terrorist based in London was none other than Younis Tsouli AKA Irhabi007, a member in good standing of al-Qaida's virtual intelligence corps.") (August 5, 2009)
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