Webmaster cleared of promoting terrorism | The Register: "Webmaster cleared of promoting terrorism
By John Leyden
Published Friday 11th June 2004 10:20 GMT
A US jury yesterday cleared a Saudi graduate student of running websites that allegedly fostered terrorism.
Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 34, a computer science student at the University of Idaho, was accused of running websites used to recruit terrorists, raise money and spread inflammatory rhetoric. The Islamic Assembly of North America websites were used by Al-Hussayen to run religious edicts defending suicide bombing and to solicit money for the militant Palestinian group Hamas, prosecutors alleged. The defence said Al-Hussayen was only a volunteer webmaster."
