能源部雇员被控试图支援胡塞武装 FBI 将其逮捕
美国司法部周四宣布，51 岁的能源部雇员阿什顿·哈米德·埃拉布迪在华盛顿州里奇兰被 FBI 逮捕，被控试图向胡塞武装提供物质支持与资源。胡塞武装是被美国认定的外国恐怖组织，背后有伊朗支持。
根据司法部的新闻稿，埃拉布迪在能源部汉福德外地办公室工作，被控为胡塞武装购置制造土制炸药和无人机的材料，并试图提升该组织的通信能力。司法部还指控他持美国陆军工程兵团时期取得的公务护照，经阿曼进入也门，试图前往胡塞武装控制的首都萨那。2025 年 9 月他返回美国时向海关声称是公务出差，但他的主管向联邦当局证实，他没有任何前往该地区的授权出差。
联邦宣誓书显示，2024 年 11 月至 2025 年 2 月间，埃拉布迪购买了硝酸、硝酸铵、过氧化氢、硫酸、硝酸钾、铝粉、硫磺粉、烟花点火器零件以及无人机零部件。负责国家安全的助理司法部长约翰·艾森伯格称："这些指控令人震惊得几乎难以想象。"能源部表示，此案不涉及危害汉福德厂区或员工安全的企图。埃拉布迪定于周五在里奇兰首次出庭。
Energy Dept. Employee Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Aid the Houthis
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, a Department of Energy employee, was arrested by the FBI in Richland, Washington, and charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Houthis, a designated foreign terrorist organization backed by Iran.
According to the DOJ, Ellaboudy worked at the Energy Department's Hanford field office and is accused of acquiring materials for homemade explosives and drones for the Houthis and of trying to improve the group's communications capabilities. The DOJ also alleges he used an official passport from his time with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to travel through Oman into Yemen, intending to visit the Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa. When he returned to the U.S. in September 2025, he told Customs and Border Protection the trip was official government business; his supervisor later told federal authorities he had no authorized travel to the region.
A federal affidavit says that between November 2024 and February 2025, Ellaboudy purchased nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, hydrogen peroxide, sulfuric acid, potassium nitrate, aluminum powder, sulfur powder, firework igniter parts and drone components. "These allegations are so deeply disturbing that they almost defy imagination," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg. The Energy Department said the case involved no attempt to harm the Hanford site or its workforce. Ellaboudy is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday in Richland.
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