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Aws Mohammed
Younis al-Jayab, 23, who was arrested in Sacramento, is accused
of making a false statement when he said he had gone to Turkey
to visit his grandmother in late 2013 and 2014. Prosecutors say
that after going to Turkey, al-Jayab went to Syria and became a
member of a "rebel group, militia or insurgent organization."
Al-Jayab was one of two men from the Middle East who came to the
United States as refugees and were arrested on federal terrorism
charges earlier this month in California and Texas.
Both men are Palestinians born in Iraq. The man arrested in
Houston, Omar Faraj Saeed Al-Hardan, entered the United States
as an Iraqi refugee in November 2009, according to a court
document.
He pleaded not guilty on Jan. 13 to charges he supplied support
to the militant group Islamic State and lied to U.S. officials,
the Houston Chronicle reported.
Al-Jayab came to the United States in 2012 as a refugee from
Syria, court documents said.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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