[mayyah]

We have been following the Islamic Saudi Academy with interest, and have been inside and given a tour. It is quite the bastion of hate towards America. It is in Fairfax County, Virginia.

It has a history - Ismail Selim Elbarasse was the school's comptroller. He was also a Hamas financier and was arrested for videotaping the bridges over the Chesapeake Bay and Kent Narrows in August 2004.

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/cgi-bin/a.cgi/guyAUPa8EdiRW6r2jfFwDw
http://www.tollroadsnews.com/cgi-bin/a.cgi/t3TBfDE5EdmcEIJ61nsxIA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33718-2004Aug25.html

[jriemer]

"The videotape behind the detention of an Annandale man was a vacation video showing the scenery from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and had nothing to do with terror surveillance, the man's daughter said yesterday.... (Dua'a) Elbarasse is being held on a material witness warrant in connection with a federal case in Chicago, where three men are charged with raising millions of dollars for Hamas. The U.S. government considers Hamas a terrorist group and says the organization has carried out attacks in Israel."
Va. Family Defends Video of Bay Bridge - WaPo (8/26/2004)

Although the article doesn't spell it out, I would hazard a guess that Mr. Elbarasse is being held as part of the GRF cases being run out of Chicago.