Atlanta terrorist convicted

by Randy Wyles

Accused home-grown terrorist, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, has been convicted on all counts by an Atlanta jury - including charges that he plotted to launch a violent jihad in Atlanta.  Sadequee could be sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Last week Sadequee watched as his former associate, Syed Haris Ahmed, 24, testify against him in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.  Ahmed testified that he told the FBI, three years ago, about their plans to join the terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, in Pakistan and to obtain weapons and attack Dobbins Air Force base in Marietta.  Ahmed also told jurors that Sadequee e-mailed what have been termed “casing videos” (a frame of the videos shown here - with Sadequee in front of the Capitol) to a man in England, known only as “Terrorist 007,” who has since been convicted of terrorism.  Ahmed has also already been convicted.

Sadequee, who was born in Virginia, grew up in Roswell after his family immigrated from Bangladesh. He became friends with Ahmed, a Georgia Tech student, and the two attended the Al-Farooq Masjid mosque on 14th Street an Atlanta where they met with, what Ahmed described as, “like-minded” Muslims.

In March 2005, Sadequee and Ahmed went to Ontario, Canada to meet with the Toronto 18, the terrorist cell accused of plotting the overthrow of the Canadian Parliament, as well as planning to bomb a power plant, several oil refineries and the stock exchange.

Sadequee and Ahmed then drove to Washington where they shot dozens of videos that were found on the computer of al-Qaida’s London operative - “Terrorist 007.”
 

Randy Wyles is Chief Investigator for Hunter Investigations and has worked as a contract field investigator for the U.S. Department of Justice.  He is also the Executive Editor of Special Ops and News.com.