Word - Terrorism redux

On Aug. 9, one of two Atlanta-based suspects in an alleged terrorism plot pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges that he assisted foreign terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, or “Army of the Righteous,” by collecting info on potential targets. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee’s plea came the day before authorities announced that UK-based terrorists were planning to hijack planes bound for the U.S. — and the same day that Oliver Stone’s 9/11 homage, World Trade Center, opened in theaters.</
“The defendants traveled to the Washington, D.C., area and recorded brief ‘casing’ video clips of symbolic and infrastructure targets of potential terrorist attacks, including the United States Capitol. The defendants made these video clips to establish their credentials with other supporters of violent jihad.”
?-- From last month’s federal indictment charging 20-year-old Sadequee, a Roswell resident who’d been living in Bangladesh, and 21-year-old Syed Haris Ahmed, a Pakistani-born, former Georgia Tech student and naturalized U.S. citizen.</
“In today’s world, we can no longer wait until a bomb is built and ready to explode to make an arrest.”
?-- U.S. Attorney David Nahmias, speaking at a July 19 press conference outside Atlanta’s Richard B. Russell Federal Building, during which he said Sadequee and Ahmed did not yet pose “an imminent threat” to the U.S.</
“This is one of the major themes of 21st-century American life, like civil rights and the Cold War [and] Vietnam were the major themes of the later part of the 20th century. All kinds of things are going to constantly be surrounding us that deal with the theme of terrorism, because it is the theme of America.”
?-- Robert Thompson, pop culture professor at Syracuse University, speaking Aug. 10 on CNN’s “Showbiz Tonight” about the release of World Trade Center.