Two former Sacramento State students were charged Thursday with helping suspected al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui enter the United States.

Sejarahtul Dursina and her husband, Yazid Sufaat, allegedly employed Moussaoui solely for the purpose of making his entry into the United States seem more legitimate.

According to an FBI report, in October 2000, Sufaat gave Moussaoui a letter identifying him as a marketing consultant for Infocus Tech, a Malaysian computer company of which Dursina is a partner. The report states that Sufaat also gave Moussaoui $35,000, which may have been meant to fund flight training and preparations for Sept. 11.

Moussaoui, believed to be the missing twentieth hijacker, was arrested on immigration charges less than a month before the attacks.

According to the Office of Public Affairs, Sufaat graduated from Sac State in 1987 with a degree in biology, but records on Dursina were harder to find.

“Our file first shows her name as Mohamed Chomel, and then we show her as Sejahratul Dursina and finally as Chomel B.T. Mohamed,” said Ann Reed, associate vice president of public affairs. “We have to admit cultural ignorance on that one. Even while she was here, we had to change her records several times because we had the names wrong.”

Dursina graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1988.Malaysian police arrested Dursina on Thursday, but Sufaat has been in custody since early December on charges of aiding Sept. 11 hijackers Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi.

Under Malaysian law, suspects can be held for up to two years without trial. In a February press conference, Malaysian officials told local media that terrorism suspects most likely will not be extradited to the United States.

“As far as we are concerned, he has committed a serious offense and we cannot hand him over to others to be extradited.” said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Compiled from reports by Associated Press, USA Today and various international news agencies.

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