• Saudi student in US charged with murder

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  Dec 8

  BINGHAMTON, New York – A graduate student from Saudi Arabia, Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, has been charged with fatally stabbing a Binghamton University anthropology professor to death.

  Al-Zahrani, 46, was charged Saturday with murder in the death of 77-year-old Richard T. Antoun. The professor was stabbed in his campus office Friday, and the weapon was later recovered, authorities said. A roommate, Souleyman Sukho said over the weekend that Al-Zahrani came at him with a blade during the three weeks they shared an apartment with a third student, Luis Pena.

  Sukho and Pena said they never heard their roommate mention Antoun, who was a professor with the anthropology department, where Al-Zahrani was working on a dissertation about early Arabic culture.

  Antoun has written several books, including “Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.”

  Pena says he recalls their roommate sitting on the sofa and suddenly blurting out, “I just feel like destroying the world.” According to Sukho, Al-Zahrani claimed there were students spying on him and he was being persecuted because he was Muslim. – AP

  Another student, Awni Qasaimeh, said Al-Zahrani made similar claims in recent days, naming three students he suspected and saying: “Tell these students not to follow me. … Do not make me trouble.”

  Broome County District Attorney Gerald Mollen said in a statement that “there is no indication of religious or ethnic motivation.” Mollen didnt know whether Al-Zahrani had an attorney.

  Mollen said Al-Zahrani and the professor had “known each other for quite some time.” – AP

  

  

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