Svenske Mirsad Bektasevics amerikanske kontakt inför rätta

I veckan inleddes rättegång mot Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, med smeknamnet Shifa, gällande bland annat förberedelse för terroristbrott. Sadequee kan dömas till hela 60 års fängelse för att ha planlagt egna terroristdåd och understött terrorister utanför USA. I svenskt hänseende är fallet intressant därför att en av Sadequees kontakter var Mirsad Bektasevic - Sveriges första självmorsbombare in spe.

I åtalet nämns kontakterna med svensken i den del som behandlar Sadequees jihadistiska aktiviteter under en resa till Bangladesh - en resa som också avslöjade Sadequees hälsosamma porrintresse.

SADEQUEE's Travel to Bangladesh

31. On or about August 18, 2005, SADEQUEE departed Atlanta for Bangladesh. The purposes of his travel included getting married, continuing his schooling, and pursuing his activities in support of violent jihad.

32. On or about August 18, 2005, as he departed for Bangladesh, SADEQUEE carried concealed in the lining of his suitcase two CD-ROMs, one containing a pornographic video and the other encrypted files. SADEQUEE also carried in his luggage a Fairfax County, Virginia, visitor's Center map of the Washington, D .C ., area, that included all of the potential terrorist targets videotaped by SADEQUEE and Ahmed on April 10-11, 2005.

33. On or about August 18, 2005, SADEQUEE was interviewed by federal agents as he transited through John F . Kennedy International Airport in New York. When asked about prior foreign travel, SADEQUEE, in reference to his early 2005 trip to Canada with Ahmed, falsely stated that he had traveled alone.

34. Between on or about August 19, 2005, and April 20, 2006, while outside the United States, SADEQUEE continued to communicate with Ahmed, other co-conspirators, and other supporters of violent jihad, including Younis Tsouli and co-conspirator Mirsad Bektasevic, a/k/a Maximus (not charged in this indictment), who possessed over 20 pounds of plastic explosives, firearms, bombmaking materials, and a manifesto promising an attack on Western interests, all of which were seized from him by counter-terrorism investigators in Bosnia Herzegovina on or about October 19, 2005.

Kontraterroristernna på NEFA foundation har en samling dokument kring det aktuella målet (och angränsande fall), men även stödgruppen Free Shifa dokumenterar ivrigt.

60 års fängelse låter onekligen överdrivet, men den porrälskande jihadisten gör det inte lätt för sig: han har beslutat att själv sköta sitt försvar, och inledde det hela med en bön.