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ByAdamSchreckand Zeina Karam The Associated Press DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIR- ATES Saudi Arabia's of- fer to send troops to fight Islamic State in Syria is as much about the kingdom's growing determination to flex its military might as it is about answering U.S. calls for more help from its allies in the Middle East. A Saudi deployment runs the potentially ex- plosive risk of confronta- tion between one of the Arab world's most power- ful militaries and forces keeping Syrian President Bashar Assad in power. That's if the Saudi pro- posal even gets translated into action. Just putting the offer on the table gives the Saudis an opportunity to show leader- ship in addressing U.S. con- cerns that its regional allies aren't doing enough to fight IS. It also puts pressure on Washington to do more as Defense Secretary Ash Carter and allied defense ministers gather in Brus- sels this week for talks on confronting the extremists. Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri, the Saudi military spokes- man, made clear the king- dom's offer is contingent on the support of the U.S.- led coalition battling the militant group in Iraq and Syria. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which also has offered to deploy ground forces, are part of the coalition but have eased up on their con- tributions to the air cam- paign after earlier, high- profile sorties over Syria. In Washington, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al- Jubeir implied Monday that his country's willingness to send special forces to Syria was contingent on the U.S. leading the ground effort. "The coalition will oper- ate the way it has operated in the past, as an interna- tional coalition, even when there is a ground-force con- tingent in Syria," al-Jubeir told reporters after meet- ing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. ISLAMIC STATE Saudioffertosendtroopsto Syria comes with uncertainty By Eric Tucker and Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON The wife of a senior Islamic State leader who was killed in a U.S. raid last year has been charged in federal court with holding Ameri- can Kayla Mueller hostage and with contributing to the aid worker's death, the Justice Department said Monday. Nisreen Assad Ibra- him Bahar, also known as Umm Sayyaf, admitted af- ter her capture last May that she and her husband kept Mueller captive along with several other young fe- male hostages, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case. U.S. officials have said that while in custody, Muel- ler was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. The criminal complaint, filed in federal court in Vir- ginia, charges Umm Sayyaf with conspiracy to provide material support to a for- eign terror organization, resulting in death. The case comes one year after Mueller was con- firmed dead by her family and the Obama adminis- tration, though it's not clear when or if Umm Sayyaf will be brought to the U.S. to stand trial. The 25-year-old Iraqi woman, who was cap- tured last year, is currently in Iraqi custody and facing prosecution there. Her hus- band, Abu Sayyaf, a former Islamic State minister for oil and gas, was killed last May in a Delta Force raid of his compound. "We fully support the Iraqi prosecution of Sayyaf and will continue to work with the authorities there to pursue our shared goal of holding Sayyaf account- able for her crimes," Assis- tant Attorney General John Carlin, head of the Justice Department's national se- curity division, said in a statement. "At the same time, these charges reflect that the U.S. justice system remains a powerful tool to bring to bear against those who harm our citi- zens abroad. We will con- tinue to pursue justice for Kayla and for all American victims of terrorism." Mueller, from Prescott, Arizona, was taken hos- tage with her boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, in August 2013 after leaving a Doc- tors Without Borders hos- pital in Aleppo, Syria, where he had been hired to fix the Internet service for the hospital. Muel- ler had begged him to let her tag along because she wanted to do relief work in the war-ravaged coun- try. Alkhani was released after two months, having been beaten. According to the FBI af- fidavit, Mueller was trans- ferred in September 2014 along with several other female captives from an Islamic State prison to the Sayyafs. The couple at times handcuffed the cap- tives, kept them in locked rooms, dictated orders about their activities and movements and showed them violent Islamic State propaganda videos. FEDERAL COURT Ir aq i wo ma n cha rg ed w it h ro le i n Mu el ler 's d ea th By Gladys Tsai The Associated Press TAINAN, TAIWAN At least four people, including an 8-year-old girl, were res- cued Monday from a high- rise Taiwanese apartment building toppled by a pow- erful quake two days ear- lier, as frustration grew among families waiting for searchers to reach their buried loved ones. More than 100 people are believed to still be un- der the debris in a disaster that struck during the most important family holiday in the Chinese calendar — the Lunar New Year. Saturday's quake killed at least 38 people in Tainan city in southern Taiwan, all but two of them in the collapse of the 17-story building. Even though the 6.4-magnitude quake was shallow, few buildings were reported to have been dam- aged, which experts said was because Taiwan's build- ing standards are high. Authorities have man- aged to rescue more than 170 people — the vast major- ity in the immediate hours after the quake — from the folded building using infor- mation about the building layout and the possible loca- tion of those trapped. Five survivors were be- lieved to have been pulled out on Sunday, and at least four on Monday. One of them, Tsao Wei-ling, called out "Here I am" as rescuers dug through to find her, Tai- wan's Eastern Broadcasting Corp. reported. She was found under the bodyofherhusband,whohad shieldedherfromacollapsed beam, the government-run Central News Agency re- ported. Tsao's husband and 2-year-son were found dead, and five other members of the family remained unac- counted for, it said. Teams also rescued on Monday a 42-year-old man from the building, and, later, an 8-year-old girl, who had been trapped for more than 61 hours. Mayor Lai Ching-Te told reporters he briefly ex- changed words with the girl, Lin Su-chin. "She is awake, but looks dehydrated, lost some tem- perature but she's awake and her blood pressure is OK," he said. "I asked her if there's anything wrong with her body. She shook her head." Shortly afterward, res- cue workers also pulled out a 28-year-old Vietnam- ese woman, identified as Chen Mei-jih, who had been trapped on what was the building's fifth floor. Family members of the missing flooded into the in- formation center in search of their loved ones or to wait anxiously. Tensions rose as some relatives, losing pa- tience, demanded to speak to rescue workers directly to get the latest information. A couple sitting in a small room where officials release information said they had heard no news about their daughter-in-law and two young grandsons. "Does that mean we are here to wait for bodies?" grandfather Liu Meng-hsun cried out angrily. Outside, a woman stood at the edge of the rubble shouting, "Your grandma is here!" Rescuers had de- tected life within the area where the 16th-floor apart- ment of her son and his family was thought to be, and were said to have heard the sound of a child. Her son, surnamed Wu, got out of the building soon after the quake, but his wife and their 4-year-old girl re- mained trapped, according to volunteers assisting the family. Earthquakes rattle Tai- wan frequently. Most are minor and cause little or no damage, though a mag- nitude-7.6 quake in central Taiwan in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people. LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAY Survivors pulled from building 2 days a er quake WALLYSANTANA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Emergency rescuers continue to search for missing in a collapsed building from an earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, on Sunday. THE DAILY COURIER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Kayla Mueller is shown a er speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. The wife of a former senior leader of the Islamic State has been charged in federal court with contributing to the death of Mueller. 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