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MOSCOW - The Spokane Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a 33-year-old University of Idaho after serving four search warrants and raiding several residences early Wednesday morning in and around campus. The task force, which is a branch of the Spokane area FBI, arrested Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a Saudi Arabian man who's the president of the U of I Muslim Students Association, around 4 a.m. Wednesday on charges of visa fraud. The task force and several other agencies are conducting a search of the student’s lab and apartment, located in the married student housing on the U of I campus. The student is reportedly pursuing a PhD in advanced computer science and has 2-3 children. News source told KREM TV the FBI usually does not get involved with visa fraud cases, and they speculated that the arrest may have something to do with the student's alleged involvement with collecting money from Muslim students – money that is allegedly being sent to terrorist organizations. The four search warrants include a search of the student's car, his apartment on campus, his lab, and another man's house in Moscow. Authorities have not presented any further arrest warrants. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho, Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, and several officials with the FBI and INS will hold a news conference around noon P.T. on the case. |
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The . . . indictment involved Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a citizen of Saudi Arabia who is a graduate student at the University of Idaho. Al-Hussayen was arrested Wednesday in Moscow, Idaho, the government said. He is charged with supporting the Michigan-based Islamic Assembly of North America, both by supplying money from overseas sources and by providing computer expertise. He is charged with failing to disclose his relationship with the group, which, if revealed, would have resulted in the government’s rejecting his visa application, the indictment said. Web sites operated by the Islamic Assembly praise suicide bombings and tout the use of airplanes as terror weapons, the government said. According to the government, one article posted on a site read, “The mujahid [warrior] must kill himself if he knows that this will lead to killing a great number of the enemies. In the new era, this can be accomplished with the modern means of bombing or bringing down an airplane on an important location that will cause the enemy great losses.” |
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