March 29, 2005

Ex-school official tied to terror

A former Detroit schools official has been charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. A criminal complaint unsealed Monday in Miami said Kifah Wael Jayyousi, 43, formerly of Detroit, conspired with Kassem Daher of Broward County, Fla., in the mid- and late 1990s to raise money and recruit Muslim extremists to fight in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Somalia. The complaint was issued in December. Authorities said Jayyousi, a former assistant superintendent for physical facilities and capital improvement at Detroit Public Schools, was arrested around 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Detroit Metro Airport after stepping off a flight from Amsterdam. The article also mentions that Jayyousi is listed as an adjunct engineering professor at Wayne State University on the college\'s Web site.

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