LOS ANGELES : Palestinian Held in Threat to Bush Is Released on Bail
A Palestinian arrested in Los Angeles after an anonymous letter to authorities saying he had threatened the life of President Bush has been released on $2,000 bond after six weeks in custody, a lawyer for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said.
Abdallah Hjazin, 26, will continue to face deportation proceedings in connection with a charge that he worked illegally while in this country on a student visa, the lawyer said. No charges were filed on the alleged threat to Bush, which was never verified.
During the Secret Service investigation, at first, no bond was set. Later, bond was set at $75,000 while Hjazin was held in a maximum security cell in Florence, Ariz. The lawyer claimed that Hjazin was being treated in an unusually rigorous manner because of his ethnicity.
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