ASHLAND (AP) - With federal agents standing by, the son of a Muslim fugitive picked through the remnants of his family's home and salvaged what he could.

Jonah Sedaghaty is the son of Pete Seda, an Ashland tree trimmer who founded the Ashland chapter of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now defunct Saudi Arabian charity. The local chapter, established in 1997, operated a prayer house and distributed Islamic literature to prisoners.

Last February, the Ashland branch was indicted on two tax charges for its role in allegedly laundering $150,000 in donations five years ago to help al-Qaida fighters in Chechnya. Seda is now an international fugitive, accused of money laundering and cheating on his taxes. He has not been charged with terrorism.

On Saturday, federal agents allowed Seda's 21-year-old son to visit his former home and take his family's belongings. The house remains part of Al-Haramain's assets frozen by the government as part of its terrorism case against the Ashland chapter.

Under the watchful eye of an Office of Foreign Assets Control agent, Sedaghaty packed whatever family heirlooms and valuables he could find into two semi-trailers.

The two-story structure has been largely untouched since February 2003, when FBI agents stormed the house as Sedaghaty was putting on his best suit for a job interview at an Ashland bank.

"Just seeing this place makes me sick, depressed," Sedaghaty said. "What use to be a nice place is horrible."

Contractors have been hired by the Department of Treasury to clean up the property and a Chicago realty firm has a federal license to handle the sale, said Tom Nelson, a Portland lawyer and family friend.

The indictment alleged that Seda's partner, a Saudi named Soliman Al-Buthe, traveled from Saudi Arabia to Ashland, where he and Seda asked a bank to transfer money from an Egyptian donor into traveler's checks and a cashier's check. Al-Buthe then took the money back to Saudi Arabia without reporting it, as required by federal law.

Seda is accused of trying to hide the transaction from the Internal Revenue Service by claiming the money was used to help pay for a mosque in Missouri.

Seda's son says his father is now in Iran, his native country which has no extradition treaty with the United States. He said he has spoken recently with his father, whom he describes as depressed.

"He's angry," Sedaghaty said. "He hates himself for this."

The son blames the charity for taking his father away.

"Without Al-Haramain, I know I wouldn't be standing here," he said. "Id be hanging out with my dad, showing him my apartment and my car. Now, I dont even know when Im going to see my dad. None of this would have happened without Al-Haramain," he said.