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after arriving on a flight from London. He was charged with accepting $ 10,700 from the Libyan
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to the United States in 1979, and became a U.S. citizen in 1996. Al-Amoudi was automatically stripped of this citizenship by the U.S. after his conviction on terrorism-related charges.
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