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WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 — Authorities in the Philippines said today that they were deporting two American brothers arrested for suspected links to terrorism. One of the men worked until 2000 for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the laboratory said.
A spokesman for the laboratory, a major nuclear weapons complex near San Francisco, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was examining whether Michael Ray Stubbs, 55, had access to sensitive information in the course of a decade of work there as heating and air conditioning technician.
Mr. Stubbs was arrested near Manila on Dec. 13, with his brother, Jamil Daoud Mujahid, a 56-year-old convert to Islam, according to American and Philippine officials. The Philippine officials said Mr. Mujahid, also known as James Stubbs, had met with members of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group, as well as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front separatist movement, two groups loosely linked by Philippine officials to Al Qaeda.
Both men denied any wrongdoing when they appeared in handcuffs at a news conference in Manila today, according to The Associated Press. But a Philippine official said the United States government was concerned that Michael Ray Stubbs may have passed sensitive information from Lawrence Livermore to his brother, who might have shared it with the militant groups.
The brothers, both of whom carried tourist visas, are being deported to the United States as "undesirable aliens," the Philippine immigration commissioner, Andrea Domingo, told reporters today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/30/international/asia/30CND-DEPO.html