The man taken into custody Friday after police spotted his wife videotaping the Bay Bridge worked for 14 years as an accountant for a Saudi school in Northern Virginia that has been criticized for promoting Islamic extremism.
| Comes as a surprise, huh? I mean, who'da thunkit? |
Ismail Selim Elbarasse was terminated by the Islamic Saudi Academy in 1998, the same year he was jailed for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into the finances of the radical Muslim group Hamas.
"Ismail, I'm afraid we gotta let you go!"
"But why, boss?"
"The Feds are about to break the door down..." |
The Saudi government sponsors the academy. Its director of education said he was unaware of Elbarasse's ties to Hamas and would have fired him earlier if he had been.
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