I found this article in the Technology section of Canada.com today.  I submitted the following write-up for the Plastic editors to review.  If the write-up gets published, I'll include the Plastic URL later.

[[update]] Read the article as published on Plastic.

Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a computer student at the University of Idaho, is facing at least 15 years in prison.  U.S. authorities filed criminal charges against the Saudi student in the Boise District Court of 'providing material support to terrorism'. Among other things, this additional indictment alleges he was the webmaster for Islamway.com (english version) and he solicited donations for 'jihad in Israel, Chechnya and elsewhere'.  He also developed web sites sponsored by the Ypsilanti, MI based Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) which even the Saudi government considers to be a radical organization and a branch of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood.  The Saudi government is nonetheless providing funding for Al-Hussayen's criminal defense.

According to the Ann Arbor news, Al-Hussayen, a doctoral candidate in a computer science program sponsored by the National Security Agency, is accused of creating Web sites and an e-mail group that disseminated messages from him and two radical clerics in Saudi Arabia that supported violent jihad, or holy war.

CNN reports that Al-Hussayen has been held in custody for almost a year. His wife and children are to be deported March 6th.  Kim Lundquist, the assistant U.S. Attorney, defended the long delay in charging Al-Hussayen by saying, "His computer contains massive amounts of information that we're still trying to assimilate.  It's taken us this long to get through the computer information".

This latest indictment is just part of interrelated FBI terrorist investigations that has led to searches and arrests across the U.S. and Canada this past year.

The search for hosting ends in Saskatoon, Canada is the slogan for amanah.com, Islamway's cited web host on their home page (arabic-language).  Ironically, it seems the U.S. authorities think they may have found terrorists there too.

 I haven't added anything substantive to Thunderstorms in the last few days.  If you read some of the recent past entries, you'll see the tip of the iceberg of my recent Javascript fascination.  Once I get interested in something, I tend to obsess.  I was up almost 30 hours straight until I finally crashed yesterday evening.  I then slept about 10 friggin' hours.  That's pretty amazing for me ... since I normally have insomnia and then usually only sleep about 2 hours at a time.

The engineers and staff at NASA/JPL running the Mars Rover Missions don't use the word "day" regarding Mars.  Watching them give briefings on C-Span, they talk about the work they accomplished on "Sol 5" or plan to do on "Sol 6".   Maybe in the Imajica, my day is actually 40 hours long instead of 24, I dunno.

I wish I was as organized as Young Pup.  Then again, I'm doing the best I can with free resources.  If I had the cash, I'd register a domain and do this stuff up right.

Since I'm stuck in the house bouncing around aimlessly with my hfd walker, I thought I should do what I friggin' wrote on my white board before Thanksgiving, "Learn java before January 1st".  The knee surgery gave me some excuse for procrastination, but now I am trying.

The easiest way for me to learn things is using other people's examples.  Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth freely, much of Imajica BBS was created from using other cool bulletin board's features and modifying them for my own purposes.

I stumbled upon Young Pup's site and it's been very helpful so far.  I downloaded his ypSlideOutMenus and played around with them.

Here's a way (in my mind) to more easily browse this blog's archives.

I forgot how tedious it all can be.


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