Posted on 04/20/2006 2:37:08 PM PDT by gondramB
A 19-year-old Roswell man was arrested Monday in Bangladesh, the second Muslim from the Atlanta area taken into custody in the past month in what family members believe are terrorism investigations.
Ehsanul Islam Sadequee was arrested by Bengali authorities after at least eight months of federal investigation into him and his family, his sister, Sharmin Sadequee, said today. Ms. Sadequee said the family had immigrated from Bangladesh and had lived in Atlanta since 1988. Ehsanul was born earlier in Virginia and is a U.S. citizen.
Federal authorities would not say what charges Ehsanul Sadequee faces or even confirm he is in custody, just as they refused to release information on a 21-year-old Georgia Tech student who was taken into federal custody last month.
Syed Haris Ahmed, a 21-year-old mechanical engineering major who had become increasingly religious in his Islamic faith, was arrested by the FBI March 23 and has been held since, his family said. Ahmed was taken into custody, his family said, apparently because authorities suspect a videotape he made of a building may have been related to terrorism.
Both families deny that their sons have any terrorist ties.
Sharmin Sadequee, the sister of the man arrested in Bangladesh, said her brother was briefly detained last August at Kennedy International Airport in New York when he was flying to Bangladesh to get married.
Sharmin Sadequee said her family, including an aunt in Canada, has been interviewed by authorities several times since.
Ms. Sadequee, who lives in Michigan, said her family got a call in mid-March from a young man saying he was an acquaintance of her brother and he had been questioned four times by the FBI about him. Ms. Sadequee only knew the man by his nickname and met him at Al-Farooq Masjid, the mosque just north of Georgia Tech. She said the man she met looks like Syed Haris Ahmed, the Georgia Tech student, after seeing his photo on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website.
Ms. Sadequee called the man this week after her brother was arrested. His cellphone had been disconnected.
Ms. Sadequee said one of the family encounters with authorities was in December when U.S. immigration agents arrested her mother at her Roswell home on immigration violation charges. Her mother was released and the case is ongoing, Ms. Sadequee said.
Sadequee's sister also said Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents came to her home in September, saying they were investigating the bankruptcy of a travel agency where a family member had purchased a ticket.
"Then they asked how many computers do you have and does your son have a laptop?" said Ms. Sadequee, who was reviewing notes the family has accumulated about the visits. "We wondered why they are asking about computers when they were investigating a ticket and a bankruptcy?"
A GBI spokesman said to call the FBI for comment. An FBI spokesman said it would get back to the newspaper with a comment. The FBI had not contacted the newspaper by publication time.
The family of Syed Ahmed said agents confiscated computer hard drives and data CDs from their home.
Ahmed told his family that authorities found a video on the Internet and apparently traced it to him. "He said, 'I made a video but didn't distribute it to anyone,' " she said. The video was of a building. Ahmed's family members said they did not know the location of the building or when the tape was made.
This leaves the impression that he prayed too much and grabbed a video of an IHOP.
"Ve know nussing!"
FBI detains Tech student, won't say why (Pakistan Born Immigrant)
And now this. This feels kind of personal, I went to Georgia Tech and had friends there from Bangledesh - the same year this new family emigrated..
>> Ms. Sadequee said the family had immigrated from Bangladesh and had lived in Atlanta since 1988. Ehsanul was born earlier in Virginia and is a U.S. citizen.<<
I also can't stop thinking about the situation with my plumber day before yesterday - he claimed that everyone in the largest mosque in Atlanta (which he attends) believes a series of bizzare things that taken together could consititute believing that Islamics have no responsibility for terrorism but need to be prepared to jihad here in the united States.
I discussed it here.... My Islamic Plumber (vanity)
Heads up...
Let's hope the FBI has some things on these guys. As an Atlantan, I'd love to see a cell based here go down pretty quickly.
"Let's hope the FBI has some things on these guys. As an Atlantan, I'd love to see a cell based here go down pretty quickly."
If there's a cell here then I hope they go down hard. But I'm still hoping this was somehow just a mistake.
I agree. I want terrorists to have it handed to them, but I also don't want to see completely see innocent people rounded up (we all know the FBI has made mistakes). Still, this particular one could be interesting. Time will tell.
ping for thoughts...
"1. 500K found, and not claimed, during a truck run into a nuclear power plant.
2. TSA uniform mistakenly placed in a NJ woman's luggage.
3. Suspicious and unreported result of suspicious activity at Atlanta/Hartsfield airport."
Particularly the truck thing... Didn't they say they were there to pick up equipment but run from security and then say they had no idea why there was half million in the back of the truck?
They have updated the first arrest
>>Tech student charged with supporting terror group
Another Atlanta area man arrested in Bangladesh
By BILL TORPY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/20/06
A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student taken into federal custody last month has been charged with giving "material support" to a terrorist organization, according to his attorney Jack Martin.<<
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/0421medetainee.html
Another Atlantan in FBI Custody
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From Atlantis?<<
Oh...That's why Triggerhippie posted a pic of Aquaman... i was afraid to ask.
sorry, I should have.....
(smarta$$ alert)
Must be another Trust operative.
Looks like we'll have to shut down the gate again.
I hope this sort of thing is happening all over the U.S. You'd be hard-pressed to convince me there aren't a lot of vistors who need a quick trip back to the Middle East.
>>I hope this sort of thing is happening all over the U.S. You'd be hard-pressed to convince me there aren't a lot of vistors who need a quick trip back to the Middle East.<<
I would prefer the need wasn't there in the first place but if its going on its got to be rooted out.
">>I hope this sort of thing is happening all over the U.S. You'd be hard-pressed to convince me there aren't a lot of vistors who need a quick trip back to the Middle East.<<
I would prefer the need wasn't there in the first place but if its going on its got to be rooted out."
Prof. Sami al Arian has a return ticket to who cares where in the middle east due for departure on Monday 4/24, no deposit, no return.
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Prof. Sami al Arian has a return ticket to who cares where in the middle east due for departure on Monday 4/24, no deposit, no return.<<
I was surprised that with all his terrorist ties the he couldn't be convicted of something.
You can't generalize (for good or bad), about a people based on your experience with one. Bangladesh has some very bloody-minded muslims in its predominently muslim population.
When I was in college there was a guy I knew on the Fencing team. He was Palestinian. A very nice guy with a good sense of humor. Always seemed to be in a good mood.
One day I made a remark about the Isreali situation. The transformation from good-natured fellow student to hate-spewing radical with homicide in his eyes was instantaneous. Shocked the hell out of me. I had known him for over a year on the fencing team and never would have guessed had I not inadvertently pressed one of his buttons.
Anyway, that's my two-bits worth.
You're right of course. But I understand my feelings urging me to generalize - it would make things so much simpler - but I need to acknowledge the complexity of the situation.
When I was in college, editor of my college newspaper, I let a person who had just returned from Israel write an article about the confict there.
Shortly after it ran, I had a Palestinian student threaten me if I didn't let him write a gory poem to run on the front page. I didn't, and he started a petition to have me booted from the editor position. He made the mistake, though, of getting a student from Venezuala (sp) sign it.I had let this Venezualian guy and his wife stay in my apt. for awhile, when they couldn'd find an apt.
He had been tricked into signing something he was told was to support foreign students. His wife jumped all over him.
After a few threats I turned the Palestinian into the Student Services office, and he was eventually asked to leave campus.
Later, I worked for a Palestinian at a men's clothing store. I asked him why they hated Israelis, and he got that same homicidal look in his eyes as soon as I mentioned it.
A couple of months ago there was a truck stolen here, a truck full of explosives used in the mining industry here.
I think the company that owned the truck has a connection to Georgia.
I'll see if I can find something on it to poast.
It's a very hard trap not to fall into. Especially these days when we're all supposed politically correct and not generalize or make judgement about anything.
Generaliizations/stereotypes are a double edged sword. Many are largely true and based on factual observations of group behavior. They can serve as a useful guide if not taken as an absolute.
Also, people, as individuals often behave differently in groups, or when around people not of their ethinic/societal group. It's a minefield out there.
(Poast)
Good grief . . . I meant post.
We have many people living here in the U.S. that hate us and what we stand for (including Americans).
I have a relative who is involved in his state's Homeland Security efforts, and he told me there is so much going on behind the scenes that the media and public know nothing about.
The attacks on this country did not end on 9/11. I believe U.S. officials have thwarted many new attempts to attack us, many more than we will ever know.
Never forget, 19 guys got on airplaces with boxcutters and killed 3,000 people. When I hear news about these guys in Atlanta being arrested, and trucks laden with explosives disappearing, I become very concerned.
As do I. Some of the things he's told me would make peoples hair stand on end.
The ironic thing about this type of war is that when we're successful, know one knows or can take credit for it. Only the failures, which are few by comparison, get reported. Same with the intelligence community (which I was a small part of for a while). No one knows you when you get it right, everyone does when you get it wrong.
"The ironic thing about this type of war is that when we're successful, know one knows or can take credit for it. Only the failures, which are few by comparison, get reported."
Not only are we fighting a war with terrorists, but we have enemies within, working hard to destroy this country.The CIA leaker just fired is only the tip of the iceburg. Then add the media's efforts to destroy us. Most people have no idea how threatened we are right now.
I am very concerned about the future of this country, the ones our grandchildren will inherit. Look how fast people forgot about 9/11, when 3,000 Americans were killed on our soil. Now, only four years later, most Americans care more about who will win the American Idol contest or a surviver show than this war on terror.
I had a big burley bodybuilder guy tell me recently that his son wanted to join the Coast Guard and he hit the ceiling because his son will not fight in this illegal war (too stupid to know the Coast Guard isn't on the front lines in Iraq, although this guy has a college degree).
Sadly enough, the next time we are attacked he'll be screaming the loudest, demanding somebody else's son save his sorry, stupid ass.
BTW, my husband also worked in intelligence many moons ago.
It's Islam. Envy, generations of third world grinding poverty, illiteracy and hopelessness, lunatic mullahs who preach righteous hatred and murder against infidels...mix this witch's brew and what do you get? People who fly planes into tall buildings, a sleeper cell in Lodi, CA., where they drove an ice cream truck by day and sent their sons to the Middle East to train with bin Laden.
And that Michigan immigrant family...from Pakistan...who murdered their daughter a few years ago, honor killing. She had the gall to work at MacDonald's after school and dated an American boy. Father was involved in phony charities, raising money for bin Laden, so the feds had wired the apt.. When he shot his daughter, she cried for her mother to help her. (The mother joined the attack.) The day before, the father called his sister on the phone, duly recorded by the feds. They laughed and joked about the Day of Honor fast approaching and that the family honor would be redeemed! The aunt even said she'd bought a new dress to celebrate. So after killing his daughter, the father dials 911, claiming she went after him with a knife when he refused her demands for $5000. Since the apt. had been wired, this didn't fly. He pled guilty so the mother avoided jail. (He died of a heart attack in jail.)
"The President of Communist China goes to Bill Gates before he goes to Washington. Hello??????"
Makes sense.
Everything Gates learned about piracy he learned from China.
I have a hard time understanding how people could come here and not like the freedom.
But if they dont like the freedom how they could decide to try to destroy it rather than just go back home.\\
I was having that argument with an islamic sympathizer earlier this weeks
Me: If they don't like it in the West why don't they move to an Islamic country?
Her: Do you know how bad the conditions are in Islamic countries?
Me: Didn't you just make my point for me?
Her: You are such a f***ing American.
Me: Thank you. You'd be cute if you weren't crazy.
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