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JEDDAH: The older brother of a Saudi accused of killing his professor in the US has denied his sibling is an extremist.

Abdul Salam Al-Zahrani was charged with murdering Binghamton University professor Richard Antoun. The university reportedly claimed the alleged killer had extremist tendencies, but brother Abdul Rahman disagrees.

Speaking to Al-Riyadh daily he said his brother is a liberal but was disappointed with the perceived weaknesses of Muslims and Arabs.

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WASHINGTON – The spokesman for the Saudi Embassy in the US has said that the Consulate in New York has assigned a lawyer to represent Saudi student Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, accused of murdering Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Richard Antoun last Friday.

Spokesman Nail Al-Jubair said an embassy representative was due to meet with 46-year-old Al-Zahrani before the end of the week and that no statement would be issued until the full details of the case were known. Authorities in New York, he said, informed the embassy Tuesday that Al-Zahrani had been charged with second degree murder crime.

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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.

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