U.S. ‘Video Terrorist’ Found Guilty
BBC News: A US court has found a man guilty of aiding terrorist groups by video-taping Washington landmarks and sending the tapes abroad.
Prosecutors said Ehsanul Islam Sadequee went to Bangladesh to meet terrorist cells and tried to help a Pakistani group linked to terror attacks.
At his trial in Atlanta, the 23-year-old denied any involvement in terrorist activity.
Sadequee, who was born and raised in the US, faces up to 60 years in jail.
At the trial — at which Sadequee represented himself — he acknowledged that he had spent time discussing jihad in online forums, but said it was empty talk.
“We were immature young guys who had imaginations running wild,” he told jurors, the AP news agency reported. “But I was not then, and am not now, a terrorist.”
