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Syed Haris Ahmed (born 1984) is a naturalized American citizen born in Pakistan who was convicted on June 9 2009 of conspiring to provide material support to terrorism in the United States and abroad. His trial was a bench trial. He was sentenced in 2009 to 13 years in prison to be followed by 30 years of supervised release. At the time of his arrest (on March 23 2006) he was an undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology majoring in mechanical engineering.