Background
Sadequee lived with his mother, brother, and sister at the family home in Roswell, Georgia.
Sadequee lived with his mother, brother, and sister at the family home in Roswell, Georgia.
In December 2001, while living in Bangladesh, he tried to join the Taliban, to assist them in fighting against United States. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. He and Syed Haris Ahmed began discussing their obligation to support jihad in late 2004. He became active on several web forums that support jihad, and discussions grew into an active conspiracy with others to provide material support to terrorists engaged in violent jihad.
While the group discussed hypothetical scenarios in which North America was attacked, the government noted there was "no imminent danger".
Police informant Mubin Shaikh later stated that he believed the two Americans had been asking whether they would be able to hide in Canada if they were to carry out attacks in the United States. On August 18, 2005, he travelled to his ancestral home of Bangladesh seeking a wife.
At New York John F. Kennedy Airport, he agreed to be interviewed by two Joint Terrorism Task Force agents prior to departing. Upon searching his luggage, the agents discovered two Civil Defense-ROMs hidden in the lining of his suitcase.
His story, including interviews with his family and former counter-terrorism officials, is told in the February 2016 Home Box Office Documentary Homegrown.
After the Toronto terror arrests in June 2006, he was charged with making a false statement for his lie in the airport about the bus trip, and placed under arrest. In a bail hearing for Sadequee, prosecutors alleged that both men traveled to Washington, District of Columbia to make "casing videos" of the United States Capitol building, the World Bank, a Masonic temple and a fuel depot, and that Sadequee had then sent the video to Irhab1007 of London who in 2007 was found guilty of incitement to commit acts of terrorism and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
