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US university student charged with aiding Hamas
Jerusalem Post ^
| Mar. 5, 2004
Posted on 03/05/2004 6:10:41 AM PST by Alouette
A graduate student from Saudi Arabia - already jailed on immigration charges - has been accused of helping to raise funds for the Hamas.
Sami Omar al-Hussayen was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism after US federal prosecutors said he helped run websites that urge people to contribute money to Hamas.
Al-Hussayen's attorney, a computer science student at the University of Idaho, said his client is innocent.
Al-Hussayen, 34, has been in a jail near Boise since being arrested at his Moscow home in February 2003. He was charged then with student visa fraud and making false statements to obtain a visa.
On January 9, federal prosecutors won an indictment adding the new charge. Al-Hussayen is scheduled to stand trial April 13.
If convicted on the new charge, he could get up to 15 years in prison.
The seven visa fraud charges carry 25-year maximum sentences, and the four false-statements counts have five-year maximums.
Al-Hussayen's wife and children have returned to Saudi Arabia after being ordered by immigration officials to leave.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Idaho; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alhussayen; hamas; idaho; jihadinamerica; moneytrail; saudi; terror; website
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:10:42 AM PST
by
Alouette
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:11:04 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Mitul d'min kadam Shemayo malchusa v'shalim b'ammaya)
To: Alouette
Just so there's no confusion.
That would be Moscow,Idaho.
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:12:32 AM PST
by
OXENinFLA
To: Alouette
"Al-Hussayen's attorney, a computer science student at the University of Idaho, said his client is innocent."Huh?
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:17:52 AM PST
by
kahoutek
((A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged))
To: OXENinFLA
Al-Hussayen's attorney, a computer science student at the University of Idaho, said his client is innocent. Speaking of confusion, I doubt the attorney is a UI computer science student.
To: kahoutek
Send him to Gitmo and forget about him.
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:19:42 AM PST
by
ChuckShick
(He's clerking for me...)
To: Alouette
Shoot the SOB!
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:31:56 AM PST
by
blam
To: ChuckShick
BTTT.
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:32:06 AM PST
by
veronica
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." GW Bush 1-20-04)
To: Alouette
Was any part of the Patrot Act necessary to apprehend this scum? Or did simply enforcing immagration law do the trick?
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posted on
03/05/2004 6:35:16 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: ChuckShick
Send him to Gitmo and forget about him
Yeah....for a year or two then execute him.
To: Alouette
Set this guy loose in a rural town in Idaho or Wyoming after putting out word to the locals of who he is and what he is charged with. They'll know what to do with him.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
LOL....I was thinking along similar lines....Idaho is not the BEST place to be a terrorist sympathizer!
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posted on
03/05/2004 7:30:17 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(The Democrat "Funeral" is on.....)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Set this guy loose in a rural town in Idaho or Wyoming after putting out word to the locals of who he is and what he is charged with. Well, let's hope he doesn't connect with some Aryan Nations gang.
Or, maybe he already is, and he'll drop the dime on them.
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posted on
03/05/2004 7:45:52 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Arur Haman! Baruch Mordechai! Barucha Esther! V'gam Charvonah zachur l'tov!)
To: Alouette
Now see, the title of this was a bit misleading. Before I read it, the title made me think the student was an American.
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posted on
03/05/2004 8:34:22 AM PST
by
msdrby
(US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
To: kahoutek; mountaineer
The terrorist is the Comp. Sci. student; a graduate student specializing in computer security if I remember correctly.
His lawyers were funded by the muslim terrorist nation saudi arabia, birthplace of islam.
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posted on
03/05/2004 8:37:58 AM PST
by
tubavil
To: Alouette; All
NICE GOIN DUDE
HA HA
Hey Alouette are you sure it not UC Berekely student
They are most Pro Palenstin school ever
We consider UC Berkerley in State of Cali as stepchild we didnt' want
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posted on
03/05/2004 11:39:32 AM PST
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in it for truth, justice, and the American way=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: OXENinFLA
Damn! I thought SPETSNAZ got him.
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posted on
03/05/2004 11:51:04 AM PST
by
Safetgiver
(Ever wonder who came up with the idea of green ketchup?)
To: dagoofyfoot
Send him to Gitmo and forget about him From Moscow, Idaho, send him to Moscow, Russia, drop a word among the locals that he is a shiiiiit Chechen resistance fighter... and forget about him.
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posted on
03/05/2004 10:12:58 PM PST
by
Neophyte
(Nazists, Communists, Islamists... what the heck is the difference?)
To: Alouette
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posted on
03/06/2004 8:29:29 PM PST
by
tubavil
To: Alouette
My first though was of a student named Sami Omar al-Hussayen Smith.
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posted on
03/07/2004 3:21:50 PM PST
by
SICSEMPERTYRANNUS
("Our responses to terrorist acts should make the world gasp." - When Devils Walk the Earth)
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