NAPLES, Fla. — Deputies seized computer hard drives from a community college's library to examine them for possible terrorist activity after three Middle Eastern-looking men were seen accessing Islamic websites, authorities said Thursday.
Collier County sheriff's deputies responded to a call from the Lely campus of Edison Community College Wednesday and confiscated several computer hard drives, sheriff's spokeswoman Tina Osceola said Thursday night.
Someone at the college reported that three men who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent had been whispering in the library while using the computer terminals to access Islamic newspapers and other materials, she said.
The men were gone by the time deputies arrived, and authorities are not searching for them, Osceola said.
The hard drives were seized in ''an abundance of caution,'' Osceola said, stressing that there was no direct evidence the men were involved in terrorist activity.
''The citizens of this country have been told to be vigilant,'' Osceola said.
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