Ehsanul Sadequee

Ehsanul "Shifa" Sadequee (born July 30, 1986, in Fairfax, Virginia)

Life Sadequee was born in Virginia and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of four siblings in a Bangladeshi-American family. He lived with his mother, brother, and sister at the family home in Roswell, Georgia before his arrest. who were subjects of a Canadian anti-terrorism investigation. 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. Upon searching his luggage, the agents discovered two CD-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 HBO Documentary Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma.

Arrest 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, D.C. 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 Irhabi007 of London who in 2007 was found guilty of incitement to commit acts of terrorism and sentenced to 16 years in prison.