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Posted on 04/06/2004 8:04:01 PM PDT by tubavil
Document: Al-Arian was FBI informant 4/6/2004
A former professor accused of raising money for a Palestinian terrorist group was briefly an FBI informant. That's according to court documents recently filed by federal prosecutors.
Sami Al-Arian is accused of using a Palestinian charity and an academic think tank as a front for raising money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The new disclosure comes in the government's response to defense attorneys' attempts to gain access to more evidence in the federal racketeering case against Al-Arian and three other men. Al-Arian is a former professor at the University of South Florida.
Al-Arian's attorneys declined to comment on the disclosure. The defense had asked the government to detail Al-Arian's cooperation with the FBI. Prosecutors say they have no duty to supply Al-Arian with information he already knows.
He met with sympathetic anti-semites[democrats]. He was asking them for money because that's what he was, a fundraiser.
Terrorist supporter had FBI links.
Can the opposite be also true? FBI having terrorist links?
Posted on Mon, Oct. 06, 2003
AP: FBI Sent Hamas Money in Late 1990's
JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - While President Clinton was trying to broker an elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the FBI was secretly funneling money to suspected Hamas figures to see if the militant group would use it for terrorist attacks, according to interviews and court documents.
The counterterrorism operation in 1998 and 1999 was run out of the FBI's Phoenix office in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and was approved by Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI officials told The Associated Press.
Several thousand dollars in U.S. money was sent to suspected terror supporters during the operation as the FBI tried to track the flow of cash through terror organizations, the FBI said in a rare acknowledgment of an undercover sting that never resulted in prosecutions.
"This was done in conjunction with permission from the attorney general for an ongoing operation, and Israeli authorities were aware of it," the bureau said.
Dude, informants are not good guys. They are bad guys with inside information about crimes, who are willing to give that information up for some (usually unclean) reason. Usually for money, or to save their own miserable skins. If the FBI used Sami al-Arian as an informant, it means the FBI believed that al-Arian had information about criminal activity. (A belief that is certainly supported by the indictment).
When an informant winds up in stir, it's a good sign that the information he gave up wasn't worth it, weighed against his other criminal activities. If Sami had really helped roll up the Hamas and Hezbollah terror-funding networks, like any loyal American would have done, d'you think he'd be in the pickle he's in today? Not likely.
Sounds more like al-Arian, arrogant to a fault, tried to game the FBI. The jury's not in yet (literally) but it doesn't look like al-Arian is ahead in the current innings.
d.o.l.
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