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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/06/006510print.html

June 05, 2005

Why Sami Al-Arian is in jail

There are still so many people who maintain the innocence of Sami Al-Arian; for them I recommend careful study of this article, "Indictment Details Paper Trail," from the Tampa Tribune (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):

Sami Al-Arian sat with a blank expression, bowing his head, as a cleric described him as the leader of the Islamic Committee for Palestine, ``the active arm of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine.''
It was 1991, and U.S. troops were fighting the Persian Gulf War in Iraq and Kuwait. Al-Arian, a Palestinian born in Kuwait, was in Cleveland for a fundraiser.

Al-Arian stepped to the lectern. Holding a microphone in his left hand, he gestured emphatically with his right, lecturing the audience in Arabic about the ``oppressive war,'' asking, ``Why did we stop'' the protests?

``Let us damn America!'' he fumed, according to a U.S. government translation of the videotaped event. ``Let us damn Israel! Let us damn their allies until death!''

The next year, Al-Arian, a popular computer science professor, was granted tenure at the University of South Florida.

Read it all.

Posted at June 5, 2005 07:12 AM