Photographs in a computer used by a Saudi student arrested for alleged visa violations include shots of the World Trade Center before and after the 2001 terrorism attacks, an FBI agent testified Tuesday. A detention hearing was to continue Wednesday in federal court to determine if Sami Omar Al-Hussayen should be released. The University of Idaho student was arrested last month and has pleaded innocent to an 11-count federal indictment accusing him of visa fraud and making false statements on student visa applications to enter the country. Al-Hussayen, 34, is a doctoral student studying computer security, and FBI agent Michael Gneckow said that gave him access to some classified information. Gneckow said a computer regularly used by Al-Hussayen was seized at a university engineering laboratory. A cursory look at the computer hard drive showed thousands of photographs, including shots of the trade center before and after the attacks, airplane crashes, drawings of planes hitting buildings, the Empire State Building and the Pentagon, Gneckow said. Full Story
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