Posted on 02/21/2003 9:30:23 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:01:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The indictment Thursday of a college professor and seven other men on charges of conspiring to finance attacks by Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a reminder that al Qaeda is hardly the lone terrorist group operating in the United States.
The 50-count indictment, delivered by a federal grand jury in Tampa, Fla., provides a detailed account of how Palestinian Islamic Jihad raised money and coordinated terrorist activities in the Middle East from the United States. Specifically, it charges that Sami Al-Arian, a professor at the University of South Florida, "directed the audit of all monies and property of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad throughout the world" and served as the secretary of the group's worldwide governing body. Two Americans were killed in a spate of attacks carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad against Israeli targets, including an April 1995 bus bombing in the Gaza Strip that killed Aliza Flatow, a 20-year-old Brandeis University student.
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