1. Pakistan - One of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists and a senior al Qaeda operative, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 and several other terrorist attacks, was arrested Saturday during a raid by Pakistani police and the CIA.
Mohammed’s arrest is a strong victory for the war on terrorism.
The arrest of Mohammed and two other men will hurt the terrorist organization’s ability to launch more attacks and could provide the US with new clues in the hunt for bin Laden, according to anti-terrorism officials.
“It’s hard to overstate how significant this is,” White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. “It’s a wonderful blow to inflict on Al Qaeda.”
Mohammed, 37, is perhaps the most senior Al Qaeda member under bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri.
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2. Idaho - The FBI last week arrested a high-profile Saudi Arabian graduate student at the University of Idaho. Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 34, was arrested at his apartment in Moscow, Idaho, on charges that he routed $1,000s from Saudi sources to a Detroit Islamic group.
Al-Hussayen was seeking his doctorate in computer science with an emphasis on guarding computer systems from cyber-attack.
He ran Web sites that contained messages from Islamic militants that promoted violent attacks against the US.
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3. Wisconsin and Mississippi - Grand juries in Wisconsin and Mississippi arrested 16 people with sending money to the Middle East from a coupon redemption scam involving 300 stores in 15 states. They caused more than $4 million in losses for companies that offered coupons.
The stores accused in the scam allegedly turned in huge amounts of coupons for redemption, even though the products were never purchased.
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4. New York - A grand jury in Syracuse, NY, accused four men and two charities - Help the Needy and Help the Needy Endowment Inc. - with funneling $2.7 million to Iraq.
Three of the men are in custody, including an oncologist in Fayetteville, N.Y., and another man who worked as an imam at the nearby Auburn Correctional Facility.
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Source: PoliceOne; CNN; AP
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