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Feds search suburban Chicago home in Islamic State case

CHICAGO (AP) - FBI agents have again searched the suburban Chicago home of a man charged with trying to travel with his siblings to Syria to join the Islamic State group.

Defense attorney Tom Durkin and FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde on Friday confirmed the search at Mohammed Hamzah Khan's Bolingbrook home on Thursday. It was first searched on the day of the 19-year-old's arrest, Oct. 4.

Durkin says agents wanted communications equipment. WMAQ-TV showed video of one agent carrying away a hard drive. Hyde didn't provide details.

Khan and his teenage brother and sister were detained at O'Hare International Airport in October.

Only Khan was charged. Prosecutors have said his siblings also were impassioned Islamic State followers and that the girl once posted favorable tweets about beheadings.

Khan pleaded not guilty.

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