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ACQUITTED. SAMI AL-HUSSAYEN, 34, University of Idaho graduate student accused of setting up websites used to recruit terrorists; of three terrorism-related charges; in Boise, Idaho. His case was bolstered by a former Middle East CIA station chief, testifying for the defense, who said al-Hussayen's website has "a clear, unambiguous, almost emotionally written condemnation of terror...
...arrest and indictment of a Saudi graduate student in Idaho last week may have been an important first step in busting up the burgeoning links between Islamic extremism and the World Wide Web. Sami Omar al-Hussayen, a Ph.D. candidate in computer security at the University of Idaho, was charged with violating conditions of his student visa by registering and maintaining a dozen militant websites promoting violence against U.S. interests. U.S. officials want to know more about al-Hussayen's work for the sponsor of most of these sites, the radical Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a Michigan-based...
...Hussayen's case also may provide fresh evidence that at least some of these anti-American websites are being supported by funds coming from Saudi Arabia. Al-Hussayen is accused of covertly receiving $300,000 from abroad and disbursing much of it to IANA. Law-enforcement sources tell TIME that about $100,000 of those funds came from radical Islamic interests in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-embassy spokesman in Washington said no government money has gone to IANA. --By Elaine Shannon and Michael Weisskopf
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