Georgia Tech Jihad Update from AP: "Terror suspects accused of plotting attack"
ATLANTA - Two men already accused of discussing terror targets with Islamic extremists were indicted Wednesday on charges of undergoing paramilitary training in northwest Georgia and plotting a "violent jihad" against civilian and government targets, including an air base in suburban Atlanta.
It is encouraging to note the forthright description of these men's activities as "jihad."
The new indictment accuses Syed Ahmed, a 21-year-old Georgia Tech student who was arrested in March, and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, of traveling to Washington to film possible targets, including the U.S. Capitol and the headquarters of the World Bank, and sharing the recordings with another alleged terrorist based in Great Britain.
Both men are U.S. citizens who grew up in Atlanta area. They previously were accused of traveling to Canada last year to meet with Islamic extremists to discuss "strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike," including military bases and oil refineries, according to prosecutors.
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Ahmed was born in Pakistan; Sadequee was born in Virginia and is of Bangladeshi descent. The new indictment says their motivation for planning attacks was "defense of Muslims or retaliation for acts committed against Muslims."
The indictment alleges that the two men received paramilitary training at an undisclosed location in northwest Georgia in late 2004 and early 2005, and discussed plans for various attacks, including one at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta.
Ahmed also is accused of traveling to Pakistan in an unsuccessful attempt to train with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, or Army of the Righteous, an Islamic extremist group that has been active in India for several years. Two U.S. officials have said last week's train bombings in Bombay matched the methods the group has previously used.
Tech Sucks! You don't see any Bulldawg Jihadis, do ya??
But seriously, it is indeed refreshing to see the words "Muslim" and "Jihad" in this story.
Perhaps the giant doth (slowly) wake...
"It is encouraging to note the forthright description of these men's activities as 'jihad.'" Yes, it is. I've noticed the word jihad and jihadist quite a bit more lately in the main stream media, and it seems that more and more people are starting to get a faint inkling of the true nature of the global jihad. I was pleasantly suprised to hear a commentary by Daniel Schorr the other day in which he not only used the word jihadist, but in which he stated it was his opinion that the situation in the middle east is now beyond the point where relying primarily on diplomacy would be productive. To paraphrase, he said that Israel had withdrawn from Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza last year as a goodwill gesture, but that it seems jihadists only see these actions as signs of weakness. When someone like Schorr starts to get it, there might yet be hope for the media and public at large. This morning however, I was again disappointed to hear the passing two sentences provided on the idictment of the two men in Georgia on terrorism charges. It was simply stated that they had been "arrested on previous charges." There was absolutely no mention of the connections to the terrorists in Canada. It still seems that there is a willful attempt by the media to obscure the connection between separate terrorist events and jihad groups and activities in separate parts of the world.
Sometimes I'm sure that many of us can't help thinking that putting Japanese Americans in relocation camps like Manzinar in the Owens Valley of California during WWII never happened.-- That experience has soured us on thinking this way when it comes to an Ideology that has a high percentage of its followers non assimilating and planning violence to the country that they either where born in or have become naturalized in.
Japanese Americans unanimously owed no allegiance to the Japanese Imperial Government whatsoever and there was never any evidence to the contrary.
Unfortunately that is not the case with adherents to Islam in America.
ATLANTA - Two men already accused of discussing terror targets with Islamic extremists were indicted Wednesday on charges of undergoing paramilitary training in northwest Georgia and plotting a "violent jihad" against civilian and government targets, including an air base in suburban Atlanta.
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and what has been done with the training camp in northwest Georgia????
has it been seized and shut down???