Student Deported Because of Web Sites

Federal prosecutors announced late last month that they would not pursue remaining charges against a Saudi graduate student at the University of Idaho who had been acquitted of fostering terrorism on several Islamic Web sites.

The remaining charges were dropped last month only after Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a computer-science student who has been in jail since February 2003, agreed to drop his appeal of a deportation order from last year.

Mr. Al-Hussayen will be deported to Saudi

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