US man conspired Jihad with Bosnian Muslim
A 23-year-old U.S. man was found guilty Wednesday by a federal jury in Atlanta, Ga. of supporting terror groups by sending videos of U.S. landmarks abroad and plotting “violent jihad” in Europe.
Ehsanul Islam Sadequee could face up to 60 years in prison after he was convicted on four counts of providing material support to terrorism.
Sadequee and his co-conspirators developed relationships over the Internet and maintained contact online, along with other “supporters of violent jihad”, among other places in Bosnia as well.
U.S. prosecutors said Sadequee, during his stay in Bangladesh, “began to conspire more closely” with Tsouli and Mirsad Bektasevic, a Bosnian-born Muslim with Swedish citizenship who was convicted in 2007 for trying to blow up a European target.
The trio, along with others, formed a violent militant group called “Al Qaeda in Northern Europe” that was to be based in Sweden and focus on attacking European targets.
Prosecutors presented evidence at the trial showing that in October 2005, Sadequee sought to obtain a visa to relocate from Bangladesh to Sweden.
As recently as three days before Bektasevic’s arrest Oct. 19 that year, the two were in contact to discuss the silencer and explosives Bektasevic had acquired for the group as well as videotapes he had made about how to use their weapons in Europe.
Mirsad Bektasevic, 19, stands in the Bosnian State Court in Sarajevo
Bektasevic, whose alias was Maximus, received 15 years in prison in Bosnia for planning to launch a terrorist attack against an unidentified European target. 19 kilograms of explosives was found in Bektasevic’s apartment.
Besides Bektasevic, the court also sentenced 30-year-old Bosnian Muslim Bajro Ikanovic to 8 years for supplying the men with explosives. Another Bosnian Muslim, Senad Hasanovic, was given a 2.5-year jail term for illegal possession of weapons and explosives.
A fifth suspect, Bosnian Amir Bajric, pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced in July to two years in prison for helping the group to purchase explosives.
Their co-conspirator in the US, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee was convicted on four counts of providing material support to terrorism.
Earlier this summer, US authorities have arrested another Bosnian Muslim native in North Carolina for plotting a violent jihad and a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons abroad.
The arrested Anes Subasic, born in Bosnia, was naturalized by the US authorities despite that he had 15 criminal counts by the Bosnian Serb courts. Subasic required a translator to understand English in the court while formal charges were pressed.
During the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s, US blamed Serbs for defending themselves against the Muslim Jihadist militants, of which, 2 took part in the 9/11 attacks on the US.
Ethnic Serb, Radovan Karadzic, is currently facing “genocide” charges at the Hague war crimes court for being a “president” of the Serb Republic during the times Serbs defended themselves against organized international Bosnian Muslim Jihad.
Many Serbs believe that the recent statement by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Bosnia is an “unfinished business” is a code word to pressure Bosnian Serbs and give a free hand to Bosnian Muslims to continue their extermination campaign.
AFP | Serbianna
August 13, 2009
Our current strategy is defensive. No preemptive wars. Our police are the front-line units as our cities will become the front line. This is but one example of how the war is comming to us.
What goes around comes around.
I hope Dony I truly hope…