California Man Arrested Near US-Canada Border on Terror Charge

A California man who prosecutors allege was on his way to Syria to join an al-Qaida splinter group was arrested March 17 near the U.S.-Canada border in Washington state on a terrorism charge, federal officials said.        The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement that 20-year-old Nicholas Teausant, an American-born convert to Islam, had planned to cross into Canada and travel on to Syria to join Islamist...

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