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Court Denies Fla. Ex-Professor's Appeal
AP via Newsday ^ | 12:06 AM EST, January 26, 2008

Posted on 01/25/2008 10:37:52 PM PST by james500

A former Florida college professor who pleaded guilty to aiding a Palestinian terrorist group was not immune from a subpoena forcing him to testify in an unrelated probe of Muslim charities, an appeals court ruled Friday.

Sami Al-Arian, 50, had argued the terms of the plea agreement exempted him from testifying before a grand jury in an investigation of Islamic charities in Virginia.

A federal judge disagreed and found Al-Arian guilty of contempt when he refused to testify.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Al-Arian's appeal Friday, ruling that federal prosecutors did not violate the plea agreement by forcing him to testify in the Virginia case.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 11thcircuit; alarian; charities; flcell; globaljihad; gwot; jihad; jihadinamerica; moneytrail; muslimcharities; ruling; samialarian; tampacell; terrorcharities; terrortrials; wot

1 posted on 01/25/2008 10:37:54 PM PST by james500
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To: james500

Good. He’s a smirky, smart-ass SOBing terrorist.


2 posted on 01/25/2008 10:43:56 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: james500

What great news! I will go to sleep with a smile on my face tonight, knowing I’ll never see that smirk on TV again.


3 posted on 01/25/2008 10:46:51 PM PST by Humidston (NO vote on McDole!!!!)
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To: james500

OK. Now kill the puke.


4 posted on 01/25/2008 10:47:51 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: james500

Ha Ha


5 posted on 01/25/2008 11:06:42 PM PST by A. Morgan (CNN - the pantload Network. Tune in or Surf over and GET a pantload!)
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To: james500
"...forcing him to testify"

As I understand it, officials did not successfully force him to testify.
They tried to force his testimony and he refused.
The judge then added a contempt charge to his original sentence but later on the charge was dropped.

So he never testified and he never will serve an extra minute due to his contempt of the court order to do so.

The government may have won a legal battle but Al-Arian, the supporter and financer of terrorists, won the battle of wills and won the war.

6 posted on 01/25/2008 11:29:42 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: Iron Munro

Even if he’d testified, he would have lied. His testimony is worthless if compelled only by court order.


7 posted on 01/25/2008 11:37:27 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Waterboard the b*st*rd first. He might still have relevant information about his fellow jihadists.

Then, take him out of the country, somewhere, doesn't matter where, and have someone with a loaded pistol look him in the eye and borrow Jack Bauer's line: ''It's gonna be a long time before you feel this good again.''

8 posted on 01/25/2008 11:38:49 PM PST by SAJ
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To: james500; Iron Munro
"He pleaded guilty in 2006 to one count of providing services to members of the terrorist group, rather than face a retrial. He was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison and will be deported after serving the sentence. A judge lifted the contempt charge in December, and he is expected to be released as early as April."

I don't get it. He pled guilty, was sentenced to 4 yrs 9 mos and will get out in April? Wish I could do my banking with that math.

9 posted on 01/25/2008 11:39:29 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: james500

Sami was a funds guy for terrorist muslims.
He was a teacher at the University of South Florida where Betty Castor the president of said University supported his “rights”.
She lost the senate battle to Mel Martinez in Florida.
The real question is whether the terrorist loving Castor could possibly have been a worse senator than Mel Martinez.
Martinez is the p.o.s. that backed the amnesty with all his might. He also supports McLame.
YOu can’t get much worse then Mel Martinez.


10 posted on 01/26/2008 2:27:31 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Joe Boucher
Mel Martinez has been the worst vote I ever cast.
I feel hook-line-and-sinker for the guy...all I can say
is I’ll work even harder to get him out next time around.
11 posted on 01/26/2008 5:05:04 AM PST by ThreePuttinDude ()... Cevapi & Slivovitz for everyone....()
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To: Joe Boucher
The real question is whether the terrorist loving Castor could possibly have been a worse senator than Mel Martinez.

Are you certain of your facts? I was there at the time, and Betty Castor bent over backwards to get rid of Al Arian in a legal manner to avoid his coming back and winning on appeal. I don't necessarily like her, but she didn't do anything wrong in the Al Arian instance. And subsequent court events proved her right. The first trial results which did not find him guilty are what resulted in his plea bargain to avoid another trial with a possible conviction. Castor's efforts to get rid of him were thwarted at almost every turn. The end result is that he's no longer teaching at USF, and that was the extent of her authority to make happen. She succeeded.

12 posted on 01/26/2008 7:18:17 AM PST by Real Cynic No More (The only thing standing between us and complete victory over the evildoers is POLITICS!)
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To: Real Cynic No More

Not the way I heard it.
I heard she had tried to stop his ouster.


13 posted on 01/26/2008 7:34:27 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: james500

This is the guy EE Times made such a big boo-hoo about back in their (always liberal) editorializing days. I can’t recall them ever acknowledging they were wrong.


14 posted on 01/26/2008 7:39:56 AM PST by bkepley
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To: Eagles6
"He pled guilty, was sentenced to 4 yrs 9 mos and will get out in April?"

I think he got credit for time served in the pokey while awaiting trial.

He should be doing life in GITMO.

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"Sami al-Arian poses for a picture with George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush, while Bush is campaigning for president in Florida. Bush chit-chats with al-Arian’s family and gives his son Abdullah the nickname “Big Dude.”

15 posted on 01/26/2008 9:10:51 AM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: james500

Say what you will about BOR, this one is a notch in his belt.


16 posted on 01/26/2008 9:29:36 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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