The forgotten jihadists in Georgia
“Childish” talker Syed Ahmed
The nutroots love to gloat when terrorism prosecutions don’t pan out. And when our guys do get the goods on jihadists on American soil? Insert chirping crickets.
In April 2006, I noted the arrests of 21-year-old Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee on international terrorism charges. In June 2006, I obtained and published the unsealed March 2006 affidavit detailing charges against Sadequee.
Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports on the bombshell admissions of Ahmed:
When Syed Haris Ahmed first sat down with counterterrorism agents on March 10, 2006, the Georgia Tech student acted as if he had done nothing wrong.
But over the next week, through 12 hours of arduous and sometimes-threatening questioning, the 21-year-old Ahmed changed his story dramatically. He admitted to taking “casing videos” of Washington landmarks, including the U.S. Capitol, that ended up on the computer of a London terrorist. He acknowledged meeting with extremists in Toronto and going to Pakistan for jihadist military training.
Even so, Ahmed told agents at one point, “It was nothing. It was just childish talk and stuff like that.” He also admitted in a signed statement: “I hoped to be recruited into a Jihadi training camp where I could learn how to fight Muslim oppressors everywhere.”
By March 17, 2006, Ahmed told agents that his jihadist thoughts led him to contemplate attacks on Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, the Masonic Temple in Washington and oil refineries in Texas. Ahmed said he contemplated attacking Dobbins because he once lived near there. He said he believed Freemasons were like the “devil.” He suggested the attack on U.S. oil refineries to raise the price of oil and bring more money to the Middle East, because “it is Muslim property and it’s being stolen,” Ahmed told agents.
Ahmed, born in Pakistan and raised in Dawsonville, now stands indicted with co-defendant Ehsanul Islam Sadequee of Roswell of federal charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Ahmed and Sadequee, who was born in Virginia to Bangladeshi parents, have pleaded not guilty.
No big deal? Wrong:
The casing videos, Richards said, were found on the computer of Younis Tsouli, an al-Qaeda-inspired computer expert in London now serving 10 years in prison.
Ahmed admitted the videos would be helpful to “plan something,” according to the transcripts.
Plan what? he was asked.
“Some kind of terrorist act. I don’t know,” Ahmed answered.
At one point, the agents asked him directly if he were planning terrorist activity. Ahmed replied: “Look man . . . it was nothing; it was just childish talk and stuff like that.”
May he spend a long, long time growing up…behind bars.
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Yeah, and the 9/11 attacks, and all of the ones preceding that atrocity were all just “kid stuff”.
Love it. Now just make sure these little monsters aren’t afforded any special treatment in prison…other than being introduced to Bubba.
At $100 per barrel. And if it weren’t for Western infidels actually drilling, extracting and refining the stuff, it would just be something holding the muslim sand together, and they’d all still be living in the 7th century. Oh wait.
Hope he spends a lot of time in prison.
There have been 10357 deadly terror attacks since 9/11… I perish the thought of what will happened when they grow serious.
Speaking of forghotten…what’s the latest about those two sinister-looking guys spotted on/near the ferry on the Puget Sound shore?
Childish like that death cult he worships.
…forgotten…
Granite #5, the latest news on that topic that I can find is from back in August.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017889.php
It’s all fun and games until somebody puts an eye out! Tell me why — again — we never read about these wanna-be jihadists in the MSM? Have so many people already forgotten?
How about the Goose Creek Two?
The religion of peace.
i am tired of hearing about these ‘childish pranks’ from young adults as an excuse or reasoning to get out of the consequences of their actions. childish pranks can endanger lives and take lives. Here is to him learning the lesson as a consequence to his childish actions may these consequences be long and unbearable.
On first glance I thought Syed was being redundant. After re-reading the passage, I believe he meant something different.
So who’s oppressing Muslims these days? Procter & Gamble with their infidel personal care products? Oh right…other Muslims!
No, no. Syed is a child. Ol’ Nancy Pelotas taught us that the age of adulthood is 25–when one no longer qualifies for SCHIP.
I hope the residents of his cell block make him feel right at home for the rest of his life. This childish individual should never be let out unless to be deported to his country of origin. He is one of many that would do us harm and the idiots at the treasonous State Department continue to let them in on student visas taking another classroom slot from an American student.
#8 On January 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am, 30 pcs of silver said:
“Granite #5, the latest news on that topic that I can find is from back in August.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017889.php”
Thank you.
But, August?
AUGUST?!?!?!
Yep I’d say he’s not guilty. Not guilty of being an American.
granite, yes, nothing new since August. These guys must have their own version of an underground railroad.
It’s only “nothing” because we now have the benefit of hindsight and nothing came of it. Just like 9/11 or any other terrorist attack would be “nothing” if it didn’t come to fruition. Was it nothing when he was out casing D.C. with a video camera? When you ask a child what he’s doing, especially after he’s been quiet for a while, and he replies “nothing”, it frequently means you better go check things out…
It frightens me to see these ‘kids’ in our colleges. Why do we allow them to enroll? I’ve heard that the muslim countries give big money to colleges. Then the schools welcome these criminal ‘kids’ into our society and teach them everything about us – from the lefty point of view. And not surprisingly, they are not converted to our way of life. Is it because the liberal mind set of the colleges is so anti-American? It should be a criminal offense to accept money from the new evil empire. Our own children are having grief getting into these same schools because they’re overrun with anti-American foreigners whose governments have given the whore-ish colleges money. This has got to be investigated.
The State Department keeps placing the dagger in the back of America by allowing moon god worshipers into this country.
What would president Reagen do? After he sank the Iranian Navy again.
And the Huckster wants to close Gitmo so that we can have hundreds of cases just like this going through the court system. Don’t you want a former Gitmo detainee out on bond in your neighborhood?
/just doing God’s work
Oh, and Canada, get a military.
Wonder if the brilliant Cynthia Tucker feels safer. Or not.
Michelle,
Thanks for reminding us that these people are still out there. I
thinkknow Americans have a short attention span.The islama terrorists are being taught in muslim terror camps that they can’t be jailed for ‘thought crimes’ in the US.
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And unless they’re ‘thinking’ badly about islam, they seem to be right.
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I fear for my country.
America , PLEASE wake up.
The world has either forgotten or refuses to acknowledge the threat. Either way, it will only cause more of us to die needlessly.
Unfortunately, people in America are some of the worst offenders when it comes to wanton Dhimmitude. Again, it will be at the cost of innocent lives.
If this was just “childish talk and stuff like that” how did those casing videos end up in the hands of a known AQ computer expert? It sounds like these children have some pretty dangerous playmates.
Jim C