No Verdict in Student’s Internet Terrorism Case
Jurors in Boise completed their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the case of a University of Idaho graduate student accused of fostering terrorism on the Internet.
The jury must decide whether Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 34, was exercising his right to free speech or breaking the law when he lent his Internet skills to websites the government claimed promoted terrorism.
Prosecutors have argued that the Saudi Arabian graduate student turned websites of the Islamic Assembly of North America into an Internet network providing information to support terrorism, particularly in the Middle East and Chechnya. He faces three terrorism charges.
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