[Cincinatus' Wife]

In U.S. on student visa-- In 1995, Al-Najjar was completing his doctorate in industrial management at the University of South Florida, where he taught Arabic as an adjunct professor. A Palestinian refugee born in Gaza and educated in Egypt, he had lived in the United States on a student visa for 10 years.

He worked as a volunteer researcher with his brother-in-law, USF colleague and fellow Palestinian Sami Al-Arian.

The two men were devoted to Al-Arian's brainchild, a USF-sponsored research center called the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, or WISE. Both say the purpose of the center, which operated out of a cramped USF office on a budget of about $20,000 a year, was to bring U.S. and Middle Eastern scholars together to discuss political and economic issues in that part of the world.

[William Terrell]

Isn't he the guy that took commerical carrier flying lessons and was interested only in turning, not takeoff and landing?

Sure, he's illegally in the US now, and our customs are innocent until proven guilty, but, WoW, lady! Who goes to the effort and expense to learn commerical flight and ignores the two most important aspects: getting in the air and getting back to the ground?