(171) On or about May 30, 1995, SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN WHO WAS IN Tampa, Florida, had a telephone conversation with BASHIR MUSA MOHAMMED NAFI who was outside the State of Florida, in which they discussed SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN's admiration for another terrorist leader. They also discussed how to appropriately respond to the ongoing press investigation of SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN at the University of South Florida and BASHIR MUSA MOHAMMED NAFI's insistence that it would be handled properly.
(172) On or about June 1, 1995, RAMADAN ABDULLAH SHALLAH who was in Tampa, Florida, had a telephone conversation with Fathi Shiqaqi, who was outside the State of Florida, in which they discussed a Lebanese magazine article which incorrectly stated that the PIJ was going to split. Fathi Shiqaqi also expressed the belief that SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN should move to another location in the United States because of bad publicity. They also stated that BASHIR MUSA MOHAMMED NAFI was disturbed by the articles in the Tampa Tribune because BASHIR MUSA MOHAMMED NAFI's name had been mentioned. On the same day, RAMADAN ABDULLAH, who was in the Middle District of Florida, had a telephone conversation with BASHIR MUSA MOHAMMED NAFI, who was outside the State of Florida, in which they discussed articles about a split in the PIJ and their anger that the reporter had mentioned members of the PIJ Shura Council and other PIJ members by name. BASHIR MUSA MOHAMMED NAFI said he would take care of the matter.
(173) On or about June 2, 1995, RAMADAN ABDULLAH SHALLAH sent a facsimile from WISE/ICP offices in Tampa, Florida, to Fathi Shiqaqi at a facsimile number outside the State of Florida, which described an article concerning the split in PIJ. The facsimile also relayed a conversation that RAMADAN ABDULLAH SHALLAH and BASHIR MUSA MOHAMMED NAFI had the evening before, and stated that SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN had recently sent a threatening message to MUHAMMED TASIR HASSAN AL-KHATIB to stop talking to the press.
Oh, his lawyer was on the tube. He said (in a chant we will hear frequently in future days) "he's a political prisoner" and Sami's gone on a hunger strike. I hope Sami knows that if a prisoner indicates that he's on a hunger strike, some jails haul the nutball to the nearest mental hospital and put an NG tube down his nose & feed him that way.