Toronto-based TheStar.com recently reported that two men from the US state of
Georgia met in the Canadian city with Islamic extremists to discuss potential
terror strikes in the United States, including attacks on oil refineries and
military bases, according to recently unsealed US court documents.
The documents say the pair met with at least three people, who are under
international surveillance, to plot ways to disable the Global Positioning
System, which would disrupt military and commercial communications and air
traffic. They also discussed a trip to Pakistan to receive military training at
a terrorist-sponsored camp.
US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Michael Scherk, a member of the
Joint Terrorism Task Force in Atlanta, says in a sworn affidavit that Eshanul
Islam Sadequee, 19, of Roswell, Georgia, and Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, of Atlanta,
made the trip to Toronto in March 2005.
Ahmed has been charged with suspicion of giving material support of terrorism
and is being held at an undisclosed location. He pleaded not guilty during a
brief court appearance in Georgia.
Sadequee is accused of making materially false statements in connection with a
terrorist investigation, and he was arrested in Bangladesh, where he told the
FBI that he had gone to get married.
Many would give pause to consider what his young bride would think of her
husband's penchant for porn, when Islamic societies in almost all cases forbid
it.
The US Attorney (federal prosecutor) in Georgia, David Nahmias, said in a
statement that the charge against Ahmed is "serious and involves national
security".
US Justice Department officials, however, said there was no immediate threat to
any strategic US targets.
According to the court document, Sadequee and Ahmed traveled to Toronto from
Atlanta on a Greyhound bus, leaving on March 6, 2005, and crossed the border
back to the United States on March 12.
Sadequee is accused of lying to federal agents when he was detained at New
York's John F Kennedy airport last August, saying he had traveled to Canada the
previous January, staying with an aunt he identified as "Manju Auntie", but
being unable to name her husband.
FBI agents confiscated computer hard drives and data CDs from their home last
month.
Federal agents conducted a search of Sadequee's bags before he left for
Bangladesh and found two CD-ROMS concealed in the lining of a suitcase.
One disc contained encrypted files that FBI technical experts still cannot
decode, the affidavit said, while the other CD contained a bootleg copy of a
hardcore pornographic movie.
Indeed, there was evidence uncovered by the 9/11 Commission after the September
11, 2001, attacks on the US that indicated that ringleader Mohammed Atta and
some of his co-conspirators viewed pornography and enjoyed the company of
prostitutes, and they were rumored to use cocaine. "Radical Islamic extremists"
seem to deviate from pious Muslim beliefs.
"They are also disillusioned in many cases," Nahmias said, and sometimes take
up Islam "in the radical form".
"I do believe that when the time comes, a number of these people will attempt
to do something quite serious."
He probably meant mass murder, not what too many religious leaders call
"serious": enjoying the on-screen antics of Jenna Jameson.
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