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Jihad in South Florida
Human Events Online ^ | August 25, 2005 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 08/25/2005 10:19:38 AM PDT by hinterlander

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 established a cell of the terrorist group at his university.

A great deal of information about Al-Arian’s activities on behalf of Palestinian Islamic Jihad has come to light at the trial – much of which was hitherto unknown or only sketchily reconstructed by intelligence officials. The trial has become the occasion for the professor, whose case has for years been a minor cause celebre among Leftists, to be confronted with the fruit of his labors for the first time. Israeli policeman Yuval Avargil was on the scene at Beit Lid in Israel on January 22, 1995, when a PIJ suicide bomber exploded a bomb that killed twenty-two people. “I opened my eyes,” Avergil recounted at the trial, “I heard something rolling near me, I saw a head of a soldier with his eyes open on the side.”

What did the Rumpled Academic think of . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: alarian; bombing; florida; islamic; jihad; left; liberal; palestinian; prof; professor; sami; suicide; teacher; terrorism

1 posted on 08/25/2005 10:19:41 AM PDT by hinterlander
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To: hinterlander
The defense claims that Al-Arian is a peaceful Muslim with unpopular political views...

They spelled it wrong, he is a Piece-ful Muslim who wants to blow Jews and others to Pieces.

2 posted on 08/25/2005 10:29:22 AM PDT by msnimje
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To: hinterlander

hmm. there was an al quaeda connection of sorts with MacDill AFB, across town, too. I wonder if it's related to the professor.


3 posted on 08/25/2005 10:31:33 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (see my FR page for a link to the tribute to Terri Schaivo, a short video presentation.)
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To: msnimje

And yet he's still using up perfectly good air.


4 posted on 08/25/2005 10:32:30 AM PDT by CAP811 (One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
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To: hinterlander
This man should have been an X-mas ornament long ago
5 posted on 08/25/2005 11:27:57 AM PDT by BayouCoyote (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

The WISE Institute, founded by Sammi, had the contract to teach islamic culture on Macdill AFB.


6 posted on 08/25/2005 2:05:45 PM PDT by mission9 (Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
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To: BayouCoyote

Time for him to ride the lightening. Sending him into general population will only guarentee more Islimy converts to deal with later.


7 posted on 08/25/2005 2:24:15 PM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: mission9
The WISE Institute, founded by Sammi, had the contract to teach islamic culture on Macdill AFB.

thx.

8 posted on 08/25/2005 4:42:19 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (see my FR page for a link to the tribute to Terri Schaivo, a short video presentation.)
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To: hinterlander

http://www.nald.ca/WHATNEW/hnews/2005/clinton.htm

President Clinton Launches tuition-free Online Education
for Africa in Ottawa

President Bill Clinton will serve as keynote speaker for the gala launch of Professeurs pour la liberté (PPL) on October 18, 2005.

(snip)

Clinton says that dedicating a great deal of his life to public service is exactly what he should do. "I'm young and healthy… I was given the life of my dreams. I got to be president. I loved it every day. So I ought to be doing this."

(snip)


9 posted on 08/25/2005 4:52:11 PM PDT by maggief (No 'luffs)
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To: maggief

oops, wrong thread ... lol


10 posted on 08/25/2005 4:53:04 PM PDT by maggief (No 'luffs)
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To: hinterlander

This thread exposes the enemy within. Since these Muslim terrorists are in South Florida maybe a tree fell on them during Hurricane Katrina .


11 posted on 08/26/2005 8:06:02 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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