Judge OKs access to videos in Dawsonville terror case

By The Associated Press

Posted 2:39PM on Monday 1st June 2009 ( 15 years ago )

ATLANTA - A federal judge has granted a request by news organizations for access to copies of audio and video court records key to the case against a former Georgia Tech student and Dawsonville resident on trial for conspiring to aid terrorist groups.

U.S. District Judge Bill Duffey granted the request Monday, the first day of Syed Haris Ahmed's trial.

The request included access to about 12 hours of an audiotaped FBI interview with Ahmed and videos that prosecutors say he and another suspect filmed of potential terrorist targets in Washington, D.C.

The news organizations requesting access were The Associated Press, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN and WSB-TV.

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Ahmed's attorney, Jack Martin, contends the federal charges are little more than "imprudent talk" and that investigators have no evidence that Ahmed, who was born in Pakistan, has committed any terrorist act.

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