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IsraelNN.com) American authorities have arrested two 20-year-old men in an Ohio city with a large Arab population on charges of funneling money for the Hizbullah terrorist organization. Police arrested them for a minor traffic violation and discovered they were carrying security information. Officials arrested the men, Ali Houssaiky and Osama Abulhassan of Dearborn, were apprehended with a dozen cell phones, names of airline passengers and information on airport security. They also were carrying $11,000 in cash and maps marking the sites of Wal-Mart stores in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern states.

For one particular sophomore at Dearborn Fordson, the teasing began a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "Hey, bin Laden," fellow students would yell in his direction as he walked the hallways. Others would point and call him "the terror squad." Why would students single out someone to be teased about Osama bin Laden, good-natured or not? Well, it doesn't help that his first name is Osama. Osama Abulhassan is a sophomore on Fordson's varsity basketball team. Having Osama as a name today must be like having had the name Adolf...

MARIETTA, Ohio - Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car. Deputies stopped Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali Houssaiky, 20, both of Dearborn, Mich., on a traffic violation Tuesday. They found the flight documents along with $11,000 cash and 12 phones in the car, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.