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KSU prof focus of Secret Service inquiry Previously was accused of being author of anti-American Web site
July 22, 2009
By Matt Fredmonsky
and Melissa Dilley
Record-Courier staff writers
The U.S. Secret Service delivered a federal search warrant at the home of a Kent State University professor Tuesday morning as part of an ongoing investigation.
Kent police assisted in serving the warrant at the Morris Road home of Julio C. Pino.
Neighbors saw several cars and law enforcement agents at Pino’s home shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday.
David Lee, a spokesman for the Secret Service’s Akron Bureau, declined to discuss what Secret Service agents were looking for at Pino’s home.
“We have an ongoing investigation which involves (Pino), but since it has an ongoing status we cannot pass on any information at this time,” Lee said.
Pino is an associate professor of history, specializing in Latin American History....
According to the KSU History Department Web site, some of Pino’s current courses include Comparative Latin American Revolutions, Afro-Latin America and History of Women in Latin America.
In 2007, Pino was accused by a conservative Web site of being the author of an anti-American Web site that claimed to support global terrorism.
Authorities would not say Tuesday if the search warrant was related to Pino’s alleged involvement with the site.
In a blog posted at
www.Townhall.com, self-described conservative Mike S. Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, claimed Pino, a Muslim, operated a blog called “Global War” at global-war.bloghi.com. The “Global War” blog claims to be “a jihadist news service” providing “battle dispatches (sic), training manuals, and jihad videos to our brothers worldwide.”....