For Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, the bombing of the Boston Marathon was a dark reminder of what might have been.

In 2009, as an assistant U.S. attorney in Atlanta, McBurney had successfully prosecuted two young Muslim men on charges of providing material support to terrorists abroad. Acting on tips from two foreign governments, in 2006 the FBI had arrested Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed, then 21, and his friend, Ehsanul Sadequee, then 19.

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