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Fairfax man returning from Yemen stranded in Cairo after landing on no-fly list

January 14, 2011

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Yahya Wehelie  A Fairfax County man returning home from Yemen has been stranded in Egypt for six weeks after being told he was on a no-fly list. Yahya Wehelie, 26, said Wednesday that after landing at the airport in Cairo in early May, he was told he would not be able to board his connection […]

Lawyer: FBI Illegally Interrogating Gulet Mohamed

January 14, 2011

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Gulet Mohamed in a Kuwaiti detention cell. | Photo: Mohamed family. By Nick Baumann FBI agents are taking advantage of an American teenager’s detention in Kuwait to illegally harass and interrogate him without counsel, the teen’s lawyer said Wednesday. Gulet Mohamed, a Somali-born American Muslim, says he was tortured and interrogated after he was detained by […]

Somali judge sends 72-year-old German to jail for 4 years for making porn in Somalia

January 14, 2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — A court official says a Somali judge sentenced a 72-year-old German man to four years in jail for making pornographic films and pictures in Somalia. The official says Gunter Pischof Albert was engaging in un-Islamic behaviour by making films and pictures of himself having sex with local women. On Thursday a judge […]