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WABE-FM (a NPR affiliate) reported at 8AM today that the “Alligator Alley Three” will be permitted to study medicine at Larkin Medical Schools “once media attention has abated”. The three medical students were initially suspected of being involved in a terrorist plot September 13th when a Eunice Stone, a customer of a Georgia Shoney’s restaurant overheard them joking about the 9-11 attack and their efforts to “bring something down in Miami”. Ms. Stone reported the three to Georgia State Police and they were eventually found in Florida. A deal to reinstate the medical students at Larkin was brokered by CAIR....

Posted on Sun, Sep. 22, 2002 Florida Muslims try to right some people's tilted viewBy CASSIO FURTADO cfurtado@herald.comOfficials from Islamic organizations in Florida gathered Saturday to look for ways they could influence some Americans' perceptions of Muslims in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.At a conference at the Signature Grand in Davie, the officials showed visible anger at the detention of three Muslim students on Alligator Alley nine days ago and the media coverage of the incident. The students were arrested after police received a tip that they might be terrorists planning an attack.The officials also complained of unfair...

<p>NAPLES, Florida (CNN) -- The Georgia woman who prompted Friday's terror scare was "flat-out lying" when she told authorities she overheard three Muslim men at a restaurant laughing about September 11 and making suspicious comments, one of the men said late Friday.</p>