A former top building supervisor for the Washington DC public schools has been arrested for being part of a US based network of Islamofascist terrorists. One of the serious questions that needs to be addressed here is how this guy got hired by the DC public school system while he was actually under federal investigation for potential terrorist activities.
A widening federal probe into a radical Islamic support network that allegedly assisted “dirty bomb” suspect Jose Padilla has netted its most surprising catch: the former top building manager for the Washington D.C. public schools.
Kifah Wael Jayyousi, who served as “chief of facilities” for the Washington D.C. school system between 1999 and April 2001, was arrested by U.S. Customs agents at Detroit airport last Sunday while returning to the country from Qatar where he has been working for the past two years.
In a criminal complaint unsealed this week and in a court hearing today, Jayyousi, 43, was described as a key player in a U.S.-based network of extremist Muslims who raised funds and recruited soldiers to wage “violent jihad” in Chechnya, Bosnia and Afghanistan. He is charged with providing material support to terrorists.
Jayyousi and two associates were “primary participants in a triangulated North American support cell,” said federal prosecutor Russell Killinger in a detention hearing in Detroit today. “They were supporters of every single violent terrorist organization that was active [during the 1990s]. I can’t tell you how many thousands of people were killed” by these terror groups.
