Alleged Syrian hacker sympathetic to Damascus headed to U.S.: source

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An alleged computer hacker sympathetic to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government is due to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday after being extradited from Germany, a U.S. law-enforcement source said on Monday. The source said Peter Romar, 36, an alleged member of the hacking group Syrian Electronic Army, was being flown to the United States on Monday. Romar is one of three Syrian nationals charged in March by U.S. federal pr