Ad says Senate hopeful hired jihadists

in response to an ad in which the Democrat said she "remove• a suspected terrorist"

Let me guess:

She suspended a Republican student who threatened to write home about the cafeteria food, and ask his alumni parents to cease donating to the endowmnet fund if they didn't stop serving outdated MREs?

I can hear her now;;;

But I could never judge them as terrorist, they might just be freedom fighters and besides, the US policy probably caused their anger anyway.

GOD, I hope that the Floridians have better since than to elect this goofball...

Betty backed up Sammi-al-Aran to the hilt. Helped, more or less (more) his brother-in-law and fellow Prof. slide back to Jihadville.

Since her 1999 departure from the University of South Florida in Tampa after five years as president, three of the four have been indicted.

She knows how to pick'em.

USF-WISE

The USF-WISE contract calls for the two parties to co-host lectures, jointly train students and share libraries.
USF President Betty Castor, Interim Provost Michael Kovac and Middle East studies committee chairman Mark Orr said in interviews that they didn't know about WISE's shared leadership with the ICP.
Three WISE officials - Al-Arian among them - also are among the six registered officers of ICP's corporate parent organization. Those three, Al-Arian, Ramadan Abdullah and Mazin Al-Najjar, are all USF faculty members as well. Abdullah and Al-Najjar teach part time.
Castor and Kovac did not assume their present roles until early 1994, two years after the contract was signed. Although it named one of USF's faculty as a prime terrorist supporter, Castor and Orr said they have not seen the documentary. Kovac said he only saw parts of it.
Among the speakers invited to USF under the WISE agreement are two people the United States considers terrorist leaders. One, exiled Tunisian Rashid el-Ghanoushi, was refused a visa by the State Department.
The other, Hassan Turabi, who did come, is generally considered the real leader of the Sudanese government, although he holds no official position. The United States considers Sudan a training ground for terrorists.
``Anybody who brings in Hassan Turabi is supporting terrorists,'' said Oliver ``Buck'' Revell, the FBI's former top counterterrorist official, now retired and working as a security consultant.
Al-Arian did it twice, once at USF and once at the annual ICP conference. Those meetings, held in a Chicago hotel ballroom from 1989-92, amounted to a militant all-star team.
Besides Turabi, Odeh, Rahman and Ghanoushi, Mohammed Sakr, one of Hamas' leaders, also made an appearance.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a privately supported organization known for research into neo-Nazi movements and tracking Nazi war criminals, complained to the U.S. State and Justice departments that the 1989 ICP conference was a ``who's who of radical Islamic fundamentalism.''
Wiesenthal Center founder Marvin Hier wrote to the agencies asking why such people were allowed into the country. Two months later, the State Department wrote back saying, in essence, it didn't know.
May 2, 1996: USF places Al-Arian on paid leave, effective Aug. 7, pending the outcome of a federal investigation into whether he was running fronts for terrorist organizations. The university lets him return two years later, citing a staffing need and no law enforcement action.

USF Sees Academic Freedom Where Others See Poor Security Tampa Tribune May 1995

School officials, including President Betty Castor, asked few questions about WISE leader and USF engineering professor Sami Al-Arian, even after an award-winning PBS documentary in November identified him as head of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group's domestic support network.
Castor agreed with Orr that it is a university's obligation to learn about the world and seek out controversial, even offensive viewpoints. The WISE agreement does that, she said, and has resulted in only a few controversial invitations.

Bomb scare, terrorist probe jolt Florida university CNN 1996

Muslim Media - 1997

US federal agents have now dropped most of their investigations except for a money laundering probe, which according to one Customs investigation official 'has yet to show any of the money was used illegally, much less to fund terrorism' (Associated Press report published in the Tampa Times, May 27, 1997). The irony is that the university was never approached by law-enforcement agencies to provide any information. It was the university itself which contacted the FBI to look into the matter, according to USF president Betty Castor.
And Castor is bitter about the manner in which allegations were bandied about without even trying to ascertain the truth. She is not alone. USF officials feel they were politically mugged by anti-terrorism hysteria in the US, generated by Emerson's scandalous fiction.

St. Petersburg Times Troxler Column

Her nickname among Republican gleeful political consultants is "Betty Al-Arian." They are referring to the Islamic think tank that Castor allowed at the University of South Florida, with an unhappy conclusion.

1996 report a sign of things to come The Oracle

Anybody but Betty Castor John Loftus

University attempts to recover from accused terrorists in midst

Firing a tenured professor is a complicated process that requires extensive justification; Castor made no moves to terminate al-Arian.

And more..........

Dem Senate Candidate: My Son the Prosecutor Will 'Help Put Limbaugh Away' FR 4-9-04

In 1978, the Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act was introduced by Representative H. Lee Moffitt, (D) of Tampa, and co-sponsored in the Senate by Betty Castor (D) of Tampa.

The initiative process in Florida requires approximately 450,000 registered voter signatures, individually certified by each county clerk, to be placed on the ballot. At that time, CAMM Board members believed the funders (George Soros, Peter Lewis and George Zimmer) of Americans for Medical Rights (AMR), the group that sponsored the successful Proposition 215 in California, would follow suit and sponsor Florida’s petition drive. Instead, AMR chose to fight other battles than Florida and funded several small state initiatives (Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Maine). The reasons given to the board members of CAMM for not funding their initiative were that (a) Florida had nine different media markets; (b) it would be a very tough and expensive battle; and (c) the funders were bored with the medical marijuana issue.

Despite the first two reasons given to not fund a Florida initiative, another corporation funded by Soros, Lewis and Zimmer, (Campaign for New Drug Policies ) filed an initiative in Florida in 2002 known as the “Right to Treatment” modeled after California’s successful Proposition 36. Ironically, the Florida Supreme Court took more than five months to decide the constitutionality of the initiative, and therefore the group pulled the initiative, claiming there would not be enough time left between the Supreme Court’s approval and the deadline for its placement on the ballot. They are now angling for its placement on the 2004 ballot.

But in her ad she says she has personally had to handle getting rid of terrorism at her school...actually she allowed Al-arian to stay!

Thanks for the great links!

You're welcome!