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Georgia student held on terrorism charge

Posted on: Friday, 21 April 2006, 14:13 CDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. authorities in the southern state of Georgia have charged a 21-year-old engineering student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta with supporting terrorism.

An indictment returned by a grand jury on March 23 and unsealed on Thursday said that for the past year Syed Haris Ahmed had attempted to provide and conspired with others to provide material support and resources for acts of international terrorism, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia said in a statement.

"The indictment is the first public result of an extensive and ongoing terrorism investigation...," said U.S. Attorney David Nahmias in the statement. "The case against Mr. Ahmed is serious and involves national security, and it will be prosecuted with that in mind."

The U.S. attorney's office said he was being held at an undisclosed location because of the nature of the offense and did not provide further details.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reported on Friday that the FBI believed Ahmed, a mechanical engineering major at Georgia Institute of Technology, attended a training camp in Pakistan last year. His family, who immigrated from Pakistan in 1997, said he went there to attend a religious school, the paper added.

It said another person from the Atlanta area, 19-year-old Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, had been arrested in Bangladesh and was being flown to New York to face charges there.

Source: REUTERS

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