U.S. officials arrested two suspected Hamas members and issued an indictment against a third. Mohammed Hamid Khalil Salah and Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar were arrested in Chicago and northern Virginia, respectively, Aug. 19 on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization, racketeering and money laundering, the Justice Department said last Friday.
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