Bangladeshi faces fresh FBI charge
Reuters, Albany
Two Muslim men accused in an FBI sting are facing new charges of helping a terrorist organisation a year after the judge in the case said there was no evidence of their links to extremist groups. A federal grand jury indicted Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain late on Thursday on nine new charges each, including conspiracy to provide material support to Pakistani-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, which the US government calls a terrorist organisation. Aref, 35, is an Iraqi-born Kurdish refugee and imam at a mosque in Albany that was raided by the FBI in August 2004. Hossain, 50, of Bangladesh, owns an Albany pizzeria. Aref also faces three additional charges for allegedly lying about his knowledge about foreign terrorist groups and falsely reporting not having any connection with these groups when he applied for US residency.
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