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  • Why Al-Arian Walked

    12/09/2005 4:56:26 AM PST · by SJackson · 37 replies · 1,236+ views
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | 12-9-05 | Debbie Schlussel
    Why Al-Arian Walked By Debbie SchlusselFrontPageMagazine.com | December 9, 2005My friend, Michael Eisenstadt, dedicated his life, among other things, to seeing terrorist leader Sami Al-Arian face justice. In September, Mike, spokesman for Tampa's Jewish community, died of lung cancer. While his passing is a source of great sadness, I'm glad Mike didn't get to see Al-Arian's acquittal, Tuesday.It was a sad day in America, but not one that was unexpected. At least by me. Everyone predicted that the jury would throw the book at the man who was a founder of terrorist group Islamic Jihad, and ran its worldwide...
  • U.S. May Deport Accused Fla. Ex-Professor [Sami Al-Arian]

    12/08/2005 11:49:12 AM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 28 replies · 1,100+ views
    AP ^ | December 8, 2005 | MITCH STACY
    Former college professor Sami Al-Arian may have won in court this week, but his future is still murky as he awaits the U.S. government's next move, which could include deportation. Al-Arian was acquitted Tuesday of eight of the 17 federal terrorism-conspiracy charges against him, with the jury deadlocking on the rest. The verdicts were a stunning defeat for federal authorities who had been assembling the complex case against him for a decade. Al-Arian, 47, remains in jail, where he's been since his February 2003 indictment, while the federal government decides whether to retry him on the deadlocked charges, which include...
  • Sami Al-Arian not guilty on 8 of 17 counts

    12/06/2005 12:40:23 PM PST · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 220 replies · 9,957+ views
    me/breaking
    There it is. Turn on the news it should be on right about now. His co-conspirators too.
  • Jury clears former Florida professor of terrorism-related charge (Al Arian; Islamic Jihad of USA)

    12/06/2005 2:59:30 PM PST · by indcons · 32 replies · 1,150+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | Dec. 06, 2005 | PHIL LONG AND MARTIN MERZER
    TAMPA - A former college professor was found not guilty Tuesday of helping to lead a terrorist group that allegedly established a cell in Florida, ending a lengthy trial that balanced allegations of terrorist-related acts against assertions of abused constitutional rights. After 13 days of deliberation, a federal jury acquitted Sami Al-Arian, once a computer sciences professor at the University of South Florida, of eight of the 17 charges against him -- including a key charge that he served as a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and conspired to murder and maim people in Israel and elsewhere. The 12-member jury...
  • Mistrial sought in Al-Arian case; jury takes holiday break (JIHAD IN AMERICA ALERT)

    11/25/2005 10:06:43 PM PST · by F15Eagle · 5 replies · 494+ views
    sptimes.com ^ | Published November 24, 2005 | By MEG LAUGHLIN
    A lawyer for one of the defendants files the motion, citing an unofficial poll that surfaced last week in the jury room. TAMPA - Jurors in the five-month federal trial of Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants finished six days of deliberations Wednesday and broke for Thanksgiving, without a verdict. They seem to be getting along. The deliberation room has been quiet, with no raised voices. Jurors have asked no questions to indicate they're perplexed or arguing. The only bleep on the radar has been an unofficial poll in the Tampa Tribune that accidentally got into the jury room last Thursday....
  • Jury settles in to deliberate Al-Arian trial (JIHAD IN AMERICA ALERT)

    11/22/2005 2:36:32 PM PST · by F15Eagle · 10 replies · 457+ views
    sptimes.com ^ | Published November 16, 2005 | By MEG LAUGHLIN
    TAMPA - Jurors for the federal trial of Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants began deliberating Tuesday, after 22 weeks in court. To give them more room and some exercise, U.S. District Judge James S. Moody told them they could move between their jury room and the courtroom, where dozens of boxes of evidence sit. This gives them a larger workspace, so they're not confined to the 16- by 18-foot jury room, where they spent much of their time during the four-day-a-week trial. During this time, they brought things to make it more homey: jigsaw puzzles of rural scenes, playing cards,...
  • Al-Arian Lied to the Press and Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Concedes

    11/10/2005 6:21:54 AM PST · by DCWatson · 4 replies · 353+ views
    New York Sun, Jihad Watch ^ | 11/10/05 | Josh Gerstein
    Al-Arian Lied to the Press and Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Concedes By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun November 10, 2005 TAMPA, Fla. - A defense attorney for a former college professor on trial for his alleged leadership role in a terrorist group conceded in court yesterday that his client lied to the press and immigration authorities in what the lawyer described as an effort to keep a Palestinian Arab think tank afloat. The former computer science professor, Sami Al-Arian, and three co-defendants are on trial for allegedly acting as the American wing of a terrorist group responsible for...
  • FL: Defense says U.S. targeted ex-professor (Sami Al-Arian)

    11/08/2005 8:12:30 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 284+ views
    ap on Yahoo ^ | 11/08/05 | Mitch Stacy - AP
    TAMPA, Fla. - A former professor was described by his attorneys Tuesday as a crusader for the Palestinian cause whose inflammatory words have been twisted by federal prosecutors intent on proving he is a terrorist. In shared closing arguments, attorneys Linda Moreno and William Moffitt said Sami Al-Arian did nothing but speak, write and publish strong words critical of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and advocate a better life for its people. "It has been a prosecution of his ideas and his beliefs, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is un-American," Moreno told the jury. Al-Arian, 47, and three...
  • Jury told ex-professor a terror ringleader (Sami Al-Arian)

    11/07/2005 6:20:12 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 16 replies · 577+ views
    ap on Yahoo ^ | 11/07/05 | Mitch Stacy - AP
    TAMPA, Fla. - A fired college professor acted as a "crime boss" for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a murderous gang that operated like the Mafia, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday. Although Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants are not charged with killing anyone, they conspired to bring about attacks and are just as guilty under the law as the suicide bombers who carried them out, prosecutor Cherie Krigsman said in closing arguments. "The men of the PIJ you got to know in this case, they didn't strap bombs to their body," she said. "They leave that to somebody else." Al-Arian,...
  • Al-Arian trial's end in sight after 5 months

    11/01/2005 10:45:52 PM PST · by F15Eagle · 3 replies · 359+ views
    sptimes.com ^ | Published November 2, 2005 | By MEG LAUGHLIN
    The defense rests its case. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin Monday in the conspiracy trial. TAMPA - Suddenly, unexpectedly, it was over. Tuesday afternoon, nearly five months into the conspiracy trial of Sami Al-Arian, attorneys mounting a defense for the last two co-defendants rested their cases. The prosecution put on a brief rebuttal. And with that, much to the surprise of many in the courtroom, U.S. District Judge James S. Moody smiled at the jury and said, "That concluded the testimony." Before dismissing jurors for a long weekend, he warned them interest in the trial was about to spike,...
  • Prof gives no defense at Florida trial (Sami Al-Arian)

    10/27/2005 9:59:03 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 568+ views
    ap on Yahoo ^ | 10/27/05 | Mitch Stacy - ap
    TAMPA, Fla. - An attorney defending a fired college professor against federal charges of aiding Palestinian terrorists rested his case Thursday without calling a single witness to refute nearly five months of prosecution testimony. Defense attorney William Moffitt called the prosecution an "all-out assault on the First Amendment" and the right to free speech, and then rested his case for Sami Al-Arian. Attorneys for three co-defendants began presenting their cases, which could take weeks more. Because the trial was continuing, neither side was immediately available for comment. Al-Arian, 47, who was fired from the University of South Florida, and his...
  • Al-Arian trial spotlights computer entries

    10/22/2005 1:00:06 AM PDT · by F15Eagle · 5 replies · 661+ views
    SPTIMES.COM ^ | Published October 12, 2005 | By MEG LAUGHLIN
    Prosecutors say that a co-defendant in the case wrote two messages praising martyrs on a PIJ Web site in 2001. TAMPA - As late as January, 2003, a defendant in the federal trial of Sami Al-Arian was receiving internal memos from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to government evidence. Tuesday, the evidence centered on defendant Hatem Fariz and three entries on his computer, which were discovered after February 2003, when the FBI seized the computer and arrested him. Besides the internal memo from the PIJ, an FBI computer forensic specialist found two 2001 guest book entries on a PIJ Web site,...
  • Al-Arian defense draws attention to Israeli actions (Palestinian Islamic Jihad)

    10/09/2005 1:33:34 PM PDT · by F15Eagle · 7 replies · 345+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | Published October 7, 2005 | By MEG LAUGHLIN
    TAMPA - A defense attorney at the trial of Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants used evidence submitted Thursday by prosecutors to tell a small piece of the Israeli-Palestinian story from the Palestinian perspective. Before the trial, U.S. District Judge James S. Moody agreed with prosecutors that defense attorneys couldn't talk about violence against Palestinians because the case is about whether defendants raised money to further Palestinian violence against Israelis, not the reverse. But assistant public defender Wadie Said saw a rare opportunity to call jurors' attention to the other side - Israeli violence against Palestinians - and jumped on it....
  • Al-Arian trial turns to Web evidence (Palestinian Islamic Jihad)

    10/09/2005 1:29:18 PM PDT · by F15Eagle · 5 replies · 294+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | Published October 6, 2005 | By BRADY DENNIS, Times Staff Writer
    TAMPA - Federal prosecutors in the trial of Sami Al-Arian spent Wednesday entering into evidence information obtained by FBI agents from the home computers of co-defendants Ghassan Ballut and Hatem Fariz. Last week, attorneys argued over the admissibility over such evidence, but U.S. District Judge James S. Moody allowed it, saying it could show knowledge of terrorist acts if prosecutors prove that defendants helped fund the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Much of Wednesday's evidence centered on Internet sites the two men visited between 2001 and 2003. It included numerous e-mails, several Arabic-language Web sites and other sites, including www.islamway.com and www.terrorismanswers.com...
  • Al-Arian judge allows Web sites as evidence

    09/24/2005 10:21:24 PM PDT · by F15Eagle · 6 replies · 420+ views
    www.sptimes.com ^ | Published September 23, 2005 | By MEG LAUGHLIN
    Prosecutors win a round, but the defense is granted time to review the material. TAMPA - Prosecutors dealt a harsh blow to defendants in the trial of Sami Al-Arian Thursday, when the federal judge allowed into evidence stacks of Internet information on Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Previously, U.S. District Judge James S. Moody questioned whether the information, taken from the computers of defendants Ghassan Ballut and Hatem Fariz after a 2003 FBI seizure, could contribute to building a case against them and Al-Arian. Thursday, the judge ruled it could. Defense attorneys argued repeatedly that it was not clear where the Web...
  • Al-Arian again confronted by survivors of suicide attacks

    08/31/2005 10:34:14 PM PDT · by anti-infidel · 2 replies · 236+ views
    Al-Arian again confronted by survivors of suicide attacks First Beit Lid, and now the Megiddo junction: from the PIJ's perspective, Al-Arian had a lot to be "chipper" about. "Israelis in Florida Jihad Trial," from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Five Israelis who witnessed a Palestinian suicide attack three years ago, were called to the stand Tuesday to testify in the trial of professor Sami Al-Arian who is accused of heading the Palestinian Islamic Jihad branch in the US and of raising money used to finance terror attack against Israelis. The Israelis that testified in court in...
  • Former professor denied terror ties

    08/31/2005 7:13:18 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 409+ views
    ap on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 8/31/05 | ap - Tampa
    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A fired university professor accused of supporting terrorists denied ties to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a filmed 1994 interview, which was played at his trial Wednesday. During the interview for a PBS documentary on Middle East terror groups operating in the United States, Sami Al-Arian was asked if he had ties to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. "There was never an affiliation," he replied. Prosecutors have presented intercepted phone calls and letters and played videotaped speeches that they say show Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor, was the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's top official in...
  • Al-Arian jury puts trial in doubt

    08/30/2005 2:10:27 PM PDT · by anti-infidel · 4 replies · 353+ views
    Al-Arian jury puts trial in doubt A few days ago I wrote in a column that Al-Arian's supporters would not be laughing for long. However, this is a group that knows well how to play the system, and they will play this for all it's worth and then some. Al-Arian walk watch, from the St. Petersburg Times, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TAMPA - Was there jury misconduct? That is the question the federal judge in the trial of Sami Al-Arian and three other defendants must answer in the next few days. Then he must decide whether to dismiss...
  • Jihad in South Florida

    08/25/2005 10:19:38 AM PDT · by hinterlander · 10 replies · 623+ views
    Human Events Online ^ | August 25, 2005 | Robert Spencer
    In a trial with more important national security implications than any since the Rosenbergs’, Sami Al-Arian now begins his third month in the dock. The defense claims that Al-Arian is a peaceful Muslim with unpopular political views. But according to prosecutors, while Al-Arian was a professor at the University of South Florida, and Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times was affectionately characterizing him as a “rumpled academic with a salt-and-pepper beard,” he was actually the head of the American wing of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), held a key position in the group’s worldwide leadership, and even...
  • FBI: Fired Professor Used Terror Code

    07/27/2005 3:07:41 PM PDT · by SmithL · 13 replies · 621+ views
    AP ^ | 7/27/5
    Tampa -- A fired college professor and associates accused of terrorism conspiracy communicated in code to conceal their support of a Palestinian group whose mission was to kill Israelis and disrupt the Middle East peace process, an FBI agent testified Wednesday. Agent Kerry Myers testified that a 1994 coded fax sent to Sami Al-Arian's home seemed to discuss "magazines" but really referred to money that Iran was sending to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The organization is a terrorist group for which Al-Arian and three co-defendants are accused of raising money. Other code words Myers identified as typical during phone, fax...
  • Martyrdom "in the face of Arab and Islamic collapse" a key issue in Al-Arian trial

    07/22/2005 11:51:29 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 22 replies · 902+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | July 22, 2005 | MEG LAUGHLIN
    TAMPA - A heart-breaking last will and testament and a letter vital to the prosecution's case were quietly entered into evidence Thursday in the trial of Sami Al-Arian and three other defendants. Without mentioning what they were, federal prosecutor Alexis Collins asked the judge to accept T-516 and T-402 into evidence. With those meaningless labels, two documents passed into the public record like a death notice slipped under a door. Their subject: martyrdom. One last will and testament came from Adel Kamel Daher, a 26-year-old Palestinian who was gunned down by Israeli soldiers after attacking an Israeli convoy with two...
  • Rally video a blow to Al-Arian defense

    07/13/2005 1:41:33 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 8 replies · 707+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | July 13, 2005 | MEG LAUGHLIN
    TAMPA - Jurors in the federal trial of Sami Al-Arian got a gripping introduction to the defendant Tuesday. The former University of South Florida professor has not yet spoken in court, but he said plenty Tuesday when the prosecution played a videotape of a rally in Cleveland in 1991. As Al-Arian took the stage, he was introduced as head of the "active arm" of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine. Al-Arian then stepped to the microphone and launched an emotional appeal for money and backing for battles and martyrdom in the occupied territories of Israel. The tape is not new....
  • Cleveland Mosque Leader Could Soon Be Deported

    07/07/2005 2:17:45 PM PDT · by 4.1O dana super trac pak · 61 replies · 1,295+ views
    NewsNet5.com ^ | 7/7/2005
    An Ohio mosque leader may be leaving the country earlier than expected.NewsChannel5 learned that Imam Fawaz Damra's appeal was dropped in the Court of Appeals.That means his citizenship remains revoked and the deportation process could begin soon. A judge revoked his citizenship in September 2004.A jury convicted Damra last year for lying about connections to terrorist organizations on his application for U.S. Citizenship.The 42-year-old spent two months in prison and four months under house arrest.Damra is the leader of Ohio's largest mosque, the Islamic Center of Cleveland, in Parma.
  • Imam here is linked to terror suspect

    02/21/2003 11:21:34 AM PST · by mabelkitty · 23 replies · 347+ views
    The Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | February 21, 2003 | Sabrina Eaton
    Washington- Cleveland Islamic leader Fawaz Damra has been linked to a Florida man who was indicted yesterday as the leader of an alleged terrorist group responsi ble for more than 100 deaths in the Middle East. A 50-count federal indict ment accuses Sami Amin Al- Arian, 45, a University of South Florida engineering professor, and seven other al leged Palestin ian Islamic Ji had members of criminal racketeering, money laundering, conspiring to kill and maim people abroad, extortion, visa fraud, perjury and other charges. The defendants all face life in prison if they're convicted. "We will bring justice to the...
  • The Al-Arian Case

    06/16/2005 4:30:38 PM PDT · by Lord Nelson · 250+ views
    Dr. Sami Al-Arian's trial is scheduled to start on Monday, June 6, 2005. We encourage everyone to attend and show support. Jury selection in the case began on May 16, and a jury was seated three days later. Unfortunately, Judge James Moody denied Dr. Sami Al-Arian's change of venue motion, which asked to move the trial to a different location, citing over a decade of smearing by local media (particularly the Tampa Tribune). Since 1995, Dr.Al-Arian has been the target of an orchestrated campaign to silence him for his views in support of Palestinian human rights. After nine years of...
  • JEB SENDS LETTER OF SUPPORT TO CAIR!!!

    06/05/2005 2:09:25 PM PDT · by auzerais · 24 replies · 1,210+ views
    DhimmiWatch ^ | 06/05/05 | Americans Against Hate
    "Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist Send Letters of Support to "Hamas Front," a press release from Americans Against Hate: (Coral Springs, FL) On May 28, 2005, the Florida Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) held its annual banquet at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. The fundraiser asked patrons to help in the establishment of a CAIR office in Orlando. While they did not attend the event, numerous high-ranking local and state government officials, including the Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, sent letters of support to CAIR. Governor Bush's letter stated, "It is a great pleasure to...
  • Sami Al-Arian's Islamic Academy--funded by vouchers

    06/08/2005 7:03:47 AM PDT · by SJackson · 11 replies · 1,202+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | June 8, 2005 | Laura Mansfield
    Florida's tuition vouchers funded school run by terrorist professor. Florida's tuition voucher program is designed to help improve the education level of children who attend schools which do not meet educational standards. In 2003, Florida taxpayers indirectly subsidized the Islamic Academy of Florida in Tampa, with over $350,000 in funds. Why is this a problem? What makes funding an Islamic school any different from funding a Christian school? The difference is that at the time, the school's principal was none other than Sami Al Arian, who was under indictment for terrorism-related charges. He is at this very moment going to...
  • The Great Unpatriotic War

    06/02/2005 11:40:06 AM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 13 replies · 1,019+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | June 2, 2005 | Jim Simpson
    In light of President Bush’s recent trip to Russia to celebrate victory over Germany in World War II, or the “Great Patriotic War” as the Soviets called it, it is useful to ask: why do historians, pundits, journalists, politicians the world over, and even Hollywood, celebrate World War II as the last “Good War” in American history? How does that conflict distinguish itself from Korea and Vietnam, wherein we faced anti-war opposition both at home and abroad? Why do we currently face such vicious resistance to the Global War on Terror from many of these same sources? The disunity of...
  • WoT ALERT: Terror U.

    01/22/2005 7:24:00 AM PST · by indcons · 7 replies · 852+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | January 21, 2005 | Joe Kaufman
    One year ago, I wrote a piece exposing radical Islam within Florida Atlantic University (FAU). My goal was twofold: [1] to bring awareness concerning a growing problem within FAU [2] to push the university to take action so that this problem ceases to exist. Unfortunately, only the first part of my goal was accomplished, as FAU is continuing to allow radicals on its campus, the latest being this Saturday'S (Jan.22, 2005) return engagement of potential co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Siraj Wahhaj. The Enemy Thrives at FAU In recent times, a fairly large list of...
  • Al-Arian Trial Is Set to Open in Tampa Today

    05/16/2005 7:13:04 PM PDT · by neverdem · 12 replies · 346+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | May 16, 2005 | JOSH GERSTEIN
    The most significant terrorism trial to take place in America since the September 11, 2001, attacks is set to open today in federal court in Tampa, Fla. A former professor at the University of South Florida, Sami Al-Arian, and three other men face charges that they operated the American wing of a terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, that has taken responsibility for dozens of bombings in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. All of the defendants have pleaded not guilty. While jury selection is scheduled to get underway this morning, there is still considerable uncertainty about where the trial will...
  • Former Professor, Three Others to Face Jury on Terrorism Finance Charges {Sami Al-Arian}

    05/15/2005 12:09:05 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 1 replies · 392+ views
    AP ^ | 5-15-05 | Vickie Chachere
    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Ten years ago, American student Alisa Flatow boarded a bus headed to a Gaza Strip beach resort for a much needed break from her studies. At the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom, a young man sat in a van loaded with explosives. As the bus approached, he steered his rolling bomb at it with ferocious speed and slammed into the bus' side. {snip} Now her parents are looking for justice half a world away in Tampa, where a former computer science professor and three others are going on trial on charges they helped fund the terrorist...
  • Friends in High Places

    05/13/2005 8:32:28 AM PDT · by F15Eagle · 6 replies · 352+ views
    MSNBC Newsweek ^ | Updated: 6:39 p.m. ET May 12, 2005 | By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Newsweek
    In a bid to court Muslim voters, top White House and political figures once met regularly with a Florida professor now accused of leading a terror group. May 12 - The lawyer for a Florida-based professor accused of leading a violent Palestinian terror group will seek to embarrass the U.S. government next month by introducing evidence that his client attended numerous meetings at the White House and met with high-level figures in both political parties, including Hillary Clinton and White House political director Karl Rove, according to recent court records. Former computer science professor Sami Al-Arian—a longstanding prime spokesman for...
  • Palestinian Charity Tied To Tampa Professor Named Terrorist Front

    05/06/2005 11:50:24 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 4 replies · 400+ views
    AP ^ | 5-5-05
    POSTED: 3:38 pm EDT May 5, 2005 TAMPA, Fla. -- A Palestinian charity named in the federal case against former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian has been named a terrorist front by the Treasury Department. The Elehssan Society distributes medical supplies and other relief in Gaza and the West Bank, but the indictment of Al-Arian says the society also is the fund-raising arm of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Treasury Department on Wednesday ordered U.S. banks to block any accounts or financial assets found in this country that belong to the Elehssan Society. The action also prohibits Americans...
  • Trial of Sami Al-Arian May Impact Both Political Camps in Washington

    04/26/2005 12:56:38 PM PDT · by neverdem · 7 replies · 482+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | April 26, 2005 | JOSH GERSTEIN
    A terrorism trial set to get under way in Florida next month could have repercussions for Washington politicians at both ends of the political spectrum. Lawyers for a former computer science professor charged with being the head of the American branch of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami Al-Arian, have named more than 20 political figures with whom he claims to have had conversations in the years leading up to his indictment in 2003. The figures cited in the case include Presidents Bush and Clinton, Senator Clinton, and a top adviser to Mr. Bush, Karl Rove. In a letter filed in federal...
  • CASTOR CONCEEDS

    11/03/2004 8:00:09 AM PST · by BOOTSTICK · 79 replies · 1,470+ views
    WFLA 970 RADIO | 11-3-04 | BOOTSTICK
    Betty Castor just conceeded to Martinez, from her HQ in Tampa.
  • Fred Barnes: Florida's Terror Referendum

    10/16/2004 3:45:19 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 14 replies · 811+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | October 25, 2004 | Fred Barnes
    In the Senate race, it's Martinez and Castor versus Sami Al-Arian.TampaTHE BIGGEST NAME in the Florida Senate race is Sami Al-Arian, and he's in jail. Al-Arian is a former professor at the University of South Florida awaiting trial on charges of terrorist activities as head of the American branch of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization that promotes suicide bombings in Israel. Around him swirls the issue of who would deal more effectively with terrorism, Republican Mel Martinez or Democrat Betty Castor. "The race," says Martinez consultant Stuart Stevens, "has become a referendum on the war on terrorism."Nearly every other...
  • Polls show Martinez pulling away in Senate race

    10/12/2004 3:45:32 PM PDT · by demlosers · 65 replies · 1,965+ views
    The Oracle ^ | October 12, 2004 | Adam Becker
    Former USF President Betty Castor finds herself trailing in key regions. Her handling of the Sami al-Arian case remains a hot topic. By Adam Becker Editor in Chief October 12, 2004 As the race for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Bob Graham heats up, former USF President Betty Castor finds herself slipping in polls across the state. According to a Mason-Dixon poll released Friday, Republican nominee Mel Martinez leads Democrat Castor by five points. News agencies across the state are reporting Castor losing the race in regions she will likely need strong support from to win, including North...
  • Ad says Senate hopeful hired jihadists

    09/30/2004 10:48:50 PM PDT · by kattracks · 8 replies · 495+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 10/01/04 | Charles Hurt
    The Democratic candidate for Florida's open Senate seat harbored Islamist jihadists at the public university where she was president, Republicans charge in a new ad.     Betty Castor hired two teachers and kept two others who, according to law enforcement officials, had ties to terrorist organizations. Since her 1999 departure from the University of South Florida in Tampa after five years as president, three of the four have been indicted.     The charges against Mrs. Castor are part of a new television ad released by her opponent, Republican Mel Martinez, in response to an ad in which the Democrat said she...
  • Unholy Alliance: How the Left Supports the Terrorists at Home

    09/24/2004 12:49:02 AM PDT · by kattracks · 1 replies · 949+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 9/24/04 | David Horowitz
    Click HERE to see a flyer with more information on David's new book.  In January 2004, President Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address. He reviewed the victories of the past two years in Afghanistan and Iraq, and assessed the war tasks ahead. Homeland security was prominent on the president’s agenda and its cornerstone was the Patriot Act, which Congress had passed in 2001 just after the World Trade Center attack. When the president came to the point in his address where he intended to ask legislators to renew the Act, there was an unscripted moment in...
  • The Would-Be Senator and the Terrorist-Al-Arian’s “suspension” was for his benefit

    08/27/2004 4:53:38 AM PDT · by SJackson · 1 replies · 163+ views
    Frontpagemagaziine ^ | 8-27-04 | Bill West
    Internal document reveals Al-Arian’s “suspension” from University of South Florida was for his benefit. The Democratic Senatorial primary on August 31 in Florida is fast approaching. One of the candidates in that primary, former University of South Florida President Betty Castor, throughout her campaign has defended her handling of Professor Sami Al-Arian during the mid 1990s. Al-Arian, accused of being a leading supporter of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization while employed at USF, faces trial in January in Tampa on Federal terrorism charges. Castor has claimed repeatedly she did all she could about Al-Arian while president of USF. Castor...
  • Why Islamic Jihad's man in Florida may go free

    08/14/2004 12:23:38 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 6 replies · 508+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, August 14, 2004 | By Robert Spencer
    He said, "Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death." He is alleged to have used his position at the University of South Florida as cover for his activities as head of the American wing of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He is thought to have held a key position in the group's worldwide leadership and even to have established a cell of the terrorist group at his university. He helped sponsor conferences featuring Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a principal conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He is,...
  • (Chicago) Mosque leader held in meth investigation

    08/13/2004 4:08:23 PM PDT · by 4.1O dana super trac pak · 38 replies · 810+ views
    A leader of a mosque on Chicago's South Side has been ordered held on charges he trafficked a chemical used to make the illegal narcotic methamphetamine.U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve ordered that Tariq Isa, 55, remain in custody Tuesday without bail. She said Isa had an incentive to flee because a conviction would carry a lengthy prison term.Isa was arrested Aug. 5 as he arrived at O'Hare International Airport from the Middle East, authorities said. A two-count indictment charging Isa with distributing almost 1.73 million tablets of pseudoephedrine was returned in May but was sealed until his arrest.According to...
  • Why Al-Arian May Walk-An activist judge does his part for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

    08/11/2004 5:18:14 AM PDT · by SJackson · 12 replies · 514+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | August 11, 2004 | Robert Spencer
    He said, “Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death.” He is alleged to have used his position at the University of South Florida as cover for his activities as head of the American wing of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He is thought to have held a key position in the group’s worldwide leadership and even to have established a cell of the terrorist group at his university. He helped sponsor conferences featuring Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a principal conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He is,...
  • Judge raises bar on Al-Arian prosecution

    08/06/2004 9:18:11 AM PDT · by nicolezmomma · 2 replies · 189+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | August 6, 2004 | GRAHAM BRINK
    TAMPA - The case against accused terrorist Sami Al-Arian just became harder to prove, though how much harder is under debate. Prosecutors must do more than prove that the former University of South Florida professor and his three co-defendants sent money or other support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, U.S. District Judge James Moody said in an order released this week. They have to show that the defendants knew the money or support would further the PIJ's future terrorist acts. Moody said he didn't think his ruling made it that much more difficult for prosecutors in a "typical case." A...
  • Fla. Judge Raises Government's Burden of Proof in Case of Former Professor

    08/05/2004 9:43:20 PM PDT · by bellevuesbest · 4 replies · 275+ views
    AP ^ | 8-6-04 | Vickie Chachere
    Fla. Judge Raises Government's Burden of Proof in Case of Former Professor Accused of Aiding Terror Group TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors putting a former professor on trial on charges he raised money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will have to prove contributions to the group were used for terrorist attacks rather than for charity, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling from U.S. District Judge James Moody was applauded Thursday by attorneys for former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian. They said it will make the government's allegations that Al-Arian used a charity as a fund-raising front for...
  • WHAT SAY YOU NOW, GROVER NORQUIST?

    07/31/2004 5:31:06 AM PDT · by SJackson · 136 replies · 4,450+ views
    Michellemalkin.com ^ | 7-30-04 | Michelle Malkin
    WHAT SAY YOU NOW, GROVER NORQUIST? By Michelle Malkin   ·   July 30, 2004 08:46 AM The Washington Post reports that Abdurahman Alamoudi, once embraced as a "mainstream" and "moderate" Muslim activist who courted both the Clinton and Bush administrations, will plead guilty today to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Libya in violation of U.S. law and attempting to hide it from the government: Abdurahman Alamoudi has agreed to admit guilt to three counts, including one related to the mysterious movement of $340,000 he allegedly received in a London hotel room from a charity funded by the Libyan government,...
  • Democrats' imam supported al-Arian: Chaplain who gave benediction witness to terror supporter

    07/29/2004 11:57:24 PM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 3 replies · 334+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | July 29, 2004
    The Muslim imam who gave a closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention in Boston also served as a character witness to Sami al-Arian, the Florida professor indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on 50 counts of terror-related charges. On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Imam Yahya Hendi said the closing prayer of the night with some verses from the Quran. Yet, last July, the 9-11 commission heard testimony from terrorism expert Steven Emerson that Hendi, one of the top Islamic clerics in the U.S., backed al-Arian – head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in North America....
  • Democrats' imam was character witness to terror supporter

    07/29/2004 8:56:34 AM PDT · by restornu · 5 replies · 541+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, July 29, 2004
    Democrats' imam supported al-Arian Chaplain who gave benediction was character witness to terror supporter The Muslim imam who gave a closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention in Boston also served as a character witness to Sami al-Arian, the Florida professor indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on 50 counts of terror-related charges. On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Imam Yahya Hendi said the closing prayer of the night with some verses from the Quran. Yet, last July, the 9-11 commission heard testimony from terrorism expert Steven Emerson that Hendi, one of the top Islamic clerics in...
  • Democrats' imam supported al-Arian

    07/29/2004 7:55:34 AM PDT · by hope · 10 replies · 718+ views
    supported al-Arian This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39701 Thursday, July 29, 2004 Democrats' imam supported al-ArianChaplain who gave benediction was character witness to terror supporter Posted: July 29, 20049:20 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Muslim imam who gave a closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention in Boston also served as a character witness to Sami al-Arian, the Florida professor indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on 50 counts of terror-related charges. On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Imam Yahya Hendi said the closing prayer of...
  • Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism Web: The "Peace" Movement's Trojan Horse.

    03/19/2003 12:14:02 AM PST · by JohnHuang2 · 15 replies · 1,365+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 | By Michael Tremoglie
    Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...