http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-21-terrorism-arrests_x.htm
FBI says 2 in Ga. plotted terrorism
Updated 4/22/2006 3:12 AM ET
ATLANTA (AP) - 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, an 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. He waived his right to
arraignment and pleaded not guilty.
Ahmed was arrested March 23 when the indictment was returned under seal. It
was unsealed by the court Thursday. The charge carries a maximum sentence of
15 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Ahmed's court-appointed attorney, Jack Martin, did not return messages
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.
Several phone messages left with his sister were not immediately returned.
"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 traveled alone in
January to visit an aunt.
When Sadequee's suitcase was searched at JFK, agents found a CD-ROM
containing encrypted files that the FBI has been unable to decode and a map
of the Washington area hidden in the lining, the affidavit said.
One day later, federal agents interviewed Ahmed, who was coming back from a
monthlong trip to Pakistan, at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International
Airport. He said he had gone to Toronto with Sadequee, according to the
affidavit.
Federal agents found that money for both men's 2005 bus trip from Atlanta to
Toronto was withdrawn from Sadequee's account.
Last month, Ahmed told agents they had met with extremists and plotted how
to disrupt military and commercial communications and traffic by disabling
the Global Positioning System, the affidavit said.
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