Salon.com > Todd Dvorak http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 18:17:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Uzbekistan national arrested in Idaho on federal terrorism charges http://www.salon.com/2013/05/16/uzbekistan_national_arrested_in_idaho_on_federal_terrorism_charges_ap/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/16/uzbekistan_national_arrested_in_idaho_on_federal_terrorism_charges_ap/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 22:27:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13300996 BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. authorities in Idaho said Thursday they have arrested an Uzbekistan national on federal terrorism charges.

Federal prosecutors said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested in Boise on Thursday after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part of a terrorism investigation.

The indictment charges Kurbanov with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The indictment also alleges he possessed an unregistered explosive device.

A separate federal grand jury in Utah also returned an indictment charging Kurbanov with distributing information about explosives, bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Boise at 9 a.m. Friday.

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