LeT operatives sentenced on terror charges in US

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Dec 15 (PTI) Two American nationals linked
to Pakistan-based LeT and JeM were Tuesday sentenced to 13 and
17 years in prison respectively by a US court for supporting
terror groups and providing them with material aid for attacks
in the United States and abroad.

US District Judge William Duffey Jr of federal court
in Atlanta sentenced Pakistan-origin Syed Haris Ahmed (25) of
Atlanta and Bangladesh-American Ehsanul Islam Sadequee (23) of
Roswell, Georgia, following their convictions earlier this
year in separate but related criminal trials.
Like David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana – the two
arrested and charge sheeted by the FBI for being involved in
the Mumbai terrorist attack -- Sadequee and Ahmed too were in
contacts with the leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
However unlike Headley, who sent video footage and
photographs of possible LeT targets in India, Sadeequee and
Ahmed sent video clips of possible LeT targets in the US.
Judge Duffey Jr sentenced Sadequee to a term of 17
years in prison, to be followed by 30 years of supervised
release. He sentenced Ahmed to 13 years in prison, also to be
followed by 30 years of supervised release.
"This is not about your faith," Judge Duffey Jr. told
them. "This is about your conduct. This is about the rule of
law in this country that you have decided does not apply to
you." MORE PTI LKJ
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