A Hamas operative was arrested while videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland, authorities said. Ismael Selim Elbarasse was detained last week as a material witness in a terrorism case in Chicago that charged another Hamas operative with laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organization.
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