3 Rochester Men Arrested in F.B.I. Terror Sting to Send $ Overseas
Posted by: Sally Durwald, Producer
Updated: 3/13/2007 2:00:49 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Three Yemeni businessmen in Rochester have been charged with sending 200-thousand dollars overseas in the belief that it would go to an Islamic terrorist group.
The three men (Yehia Ali Ahmed Alomari, 26; Mohamed Al Huraibi, 49; and Saleh Mohamed Taher Saeed, 27) appeared before a federal magistrate Monday after being charged with conspiring to launder money and laundering monetary instruments.
Federal authorities say the men willingly sent the money after being told by an undercover agent that the funds would help Hezbollah. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports that the money actually was sent to accounts controlled by the federal
government.
Federal officials say the sting was set up after one of the small business owners sent more than 12 (m) million dollars overseas during a two-year period.
A lawyer for one of the accused said his client believed he was helping send money to relatives in Yemen.
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...and it goes on and on and on. The enemies within. We let them walk in the front door.
That's why I'm backing Rudy Giuliani. He will be tough on terrorism and terrorists, both foreign and homegrown.