Ehsanul Islam Sadequee and Syed Haris Ahmed were sentenced to prison yesterday in US District Court in Atlanta, Georgia. Sadequee got 17 years, and Ahmed 13 - both are subject to 30 years court supervision upon release. (Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the second link and read some of Judge Duffy's remarks to Sadequee).

• Terrorism Defendants Sentenced
• Federal Judge Sentences 2 Muslim Americans for Conspiring to Aid Terror Groups

Sadequee and Ahmed were part of the global network of jihadis that coagulated around Younis Tsouli and Aabid Khan. While Sadequee may have been deserving of the longer sentence, it was Syed Haris Ahmed, together with his friend Zubair Ahmed (no relation), who publicly threatened to kill me and privately discussed the same - so I derive a certain sense of satisfaction from knowing the bastard will be locked up for quite awhile.

I was aware of the threat - they made sure I knew they were coming for me:

Threat posted on the al-Ansar forum, most likely by Zubair Ahmed

For his part, Younis Tsouli was content to have a small part of my body as a kind of relic:

Irhabi007 makes a request

The FBI was also aware of what was being discussed, as the following excerpt from an intercepted phone call makes clear. Now that these guys are locked up it's kind of comical. They try and speak in code about me and the Internet Haganah website, but they had to make up the code as they went along, and by the time they were in synch they had totally revealed the subject of the conversation. And despite being convinced that the conversation was being monitored - it was - they spoke for over thirty minutes, taking turns along the way to accuse each other of talking too much...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. SYED HARIS AHMED and EHSANUL ISLAM SADEQUEE

The transcript of a recorded telephone call between Zubair Ahmed [ZA] and
Syed Haris Ahmed [SHA], commencing on December 3, 2005.

TRANSCRIPT ABBREVIATIONS
[UI] Unintelligible
[PH] Phonetic
[ ] Translation from Urdu
[OV] Overlapping voices
… Unfinished speech or stuttering

[Zubair Ahmed (ZA) was in Chicago at the time in question. In January he pled guilty to a count of providing material support to a terrorist organization (al-Qaida). He's now cooperating with the government.

Syed Haris Ahmed (SHA) was in Atlanta at the time in question.

SHA and ZA are not related.]

...

00:05:41 SHA: So, that's-that was the thing. Not much . . . not much important.

00:05:45 But there's also a guy in your city man, Internet Haganah.

00:05:49 ZA: Yeah.

00:05:50 SHA: The owner is in your city.

00:05:51 ZA: He's in what?

00:05:54 SHA: You know the . . . the owner of Internet Haganah or something

00:05:58 like that?

00:05:59 ZA: What about him?

00:05:59 SHA: He's in your old city.

00:06:02 ZA: [Oh, he's in the old city]? OK.

00:06:07 SHA: Huh?

00:06:08 ZA: Alright. Yeah. [UI] got it.

00:06:10 SHA: [I got his] address [and everything, buddy. I even got a picture]. I

00:06:14 wanna go check him out.

00:06:15 ZA: Yeah? I didn't know that. [The old lady came back, right?]

00:06:21 Back online? [The old lady came back, right]? Back online?

00:06:24 SHA: Yeah, it's back online man.

00:06:25 ZA: Yeah, [that keeps on going]. You know [she got into a fight].

00:06:32 SHA: Huh?

00:06:33 ZA: [That] drama [keeps on going, so]. . . .

00:06:36 SHA: [OK].

00:06:37 ZA: [The old lady], ah, [the old lady] seems to fight with. . . .

00:06:42 SHA: [The old lady] what?

00:06:43 ZA: [The old lady] seems to fight with everyone, dude.

00:06:45 SHA: [The old lady]?

00:06:47 ZA: Yeah.

00:06:48 SHA: Oh, no I was . . . I am talking about someone else, Internet

00:06:52 Haganah.

00:06:52 ZA: Yeah, I know. I know. I know.

00:06:54 SHA: [OK, OK].

00:06:55 ZA: [I didn't know that he is living in the old city].

00:07:00 SHA: [Yes, yes]. Yeah, yeah, [he is in the old city].

00:07:02 ZA: Yeah.

00:07:03 SHA: I wa I wanna pay him a visit man, wanna check him out. What

00:07:07 is he up to, like see . . . check him out.

00:07:09 ZA: [Do you have all of his] information?

00:07:11 SHA: Yeah, yeah. [I have his picture, his complete home] address,

00:07:13 [everything].

00:07:14 ZA: [UI] [LAUGHS]

00:07:17 SHA: Yeah, I mean I think it's correct.

00:07:19 ZA: Oh.

00:07:21 SHA: [Picture. . . . I know his picture for sure, that he's like that. [UI] I

00:07:23 even] printed [it].

00:07:26 ZA: OK.

00:07:27 SHA: So. . . .

00:07:29 ZA: Spring or summer time [is the best] time [to do this thing].

00:07:32 SHA: [What]?

00:07:33 ZA: [Now during] winter, [it is very difficult].

00:07:36 SHA: [OK].

00:07:38 ZA: Spring and summer are [good. That is the most precious] time.

00:07:42 SHA: [Which] time?

00:07:45 ZA: Spring [or] summer.

00:07:47 SHA: Spring [or] summer. [Really]?

00:07:49 ZA: Yeah.

00:07:49 SHA: Alright. Oh. Yeah, [God willing], spring then, OK. [UI]

00:07:54 [OV]

00:07:55 ZA: Can you hear me man?

00:07:56 SHA: Huh?

00:07:57 ZA: Can you hear me?

00:07:58 SHA: [It is very] low, [buddy, the voice is very low].

00:08:01 ZA: You know what? [This has never happened in life. Someone is]

00:08:04 definitely [listening to our conversation].

00:08:05 SHA: [What]?

00:08:07 ZA: [Such voice. . . . This] problem [with the voice, right? It has never

00:08:10 happened before].

00:08:12 [OV]

00:08:12 SHA: Uh huh.

00:08:13 ZA: [There is some trouble in this].

00:08:15 SHA: [Really]? You think so?

00:08:17 [OV]

00:08:17 ZA: Yeah.