An Atlanta terrorism suspect travelled to Canada in 2005 to meet with three members of an alleged Toronto extremist group to plot attacks on oil refineries in America, U.S. prosecutors said Monday at the start of his trial.
Prosecutors accuse Syed Haris Ahmed, 25, of providing material support for terrorism and seeking military training with a terror group in Pakistan.
In his opening remarks at a U.S. federal court in Atlanta, assistant U.S. attorney Robert McBurney portrayed Ahmed as a militant time bomb who sent enthusiastic, unencrypted emails to confederates.
Ahmed headed to Pakistan to sign up for jihad training, then backed out, McBurney alleged. He also shot surreptitious video of potential targets in Washington, D.C., and when the FBI showed up, he talked for hours without asking for a lawyer and provided a confession that fills hundreds of pages.
The court heard how Ahmed and a co-accused allegedly found some "Canadian brothers" online, and travelled to Toronto in 2005 to meet with three other would-be jihadists, identified only as Azdee, James and Jamal.
According to the prosecution, Ahmed proposed attacking U.S. oil refineries and storage tanks.
"I wanted to attack those places because oil is being stolen from Muslims," Ahmed is quoted as telling investigators in his confession....
I am sick of the muslims saying that the US is steeling their oil. We pay dearly for that oil.
10 years ago
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