ATLANTA - An FBI agent testified Monday in Atlanta that two men - one from Dawson County - charged with aiding terrorists met in Toronto with some of the 17 people arrested in a terror sweep there in 2006.
Agent Mark Richards also testified that Syed Ahmed of Dawsonville and Ehsanul Sadequee shot ``casing videos'' of Washington landmarks later found in Britain on a terror suspect's computer.
The testimony came during a hearing in the 23-year-old Ahmed was asking a judge to throw out tapes of his interviews with investigators or else abide by an alleged agreement not to prosecute him.
Transcripts of the ten to 12 hours of interviews with Ahmed in March 2006 show that Ahmed admitted that he traveled to Pakistan in 2005 with the goal of joining a Kashmir militant group. He also told the FBI that he had hoped to be recruited into a Jihad training camp where he could learn to fight against ``Muslim oppressors everywhere.''
But Ahmed later told investigators that he had mixed feelings about his terrorist ambitions and was talked out of them by relatives.
Richards testified that no promises or threats were made to Ahmed. He also said that Ahmed was not truthful during some of the interviews.
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April 3rd, 2025
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