March 11, 2009 By Scott Horton The Associated Press reports:The Justice Department may have hoodwinked a defendant in a high-profile terrorism case into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from further prosecutions, a federal judge said Monday. Monday’s hearing in U.S. District Court was the latest in which Judge[Read More…]
March 11, 2009 By Scott Horton The Associated Press reports:The Justice Department may have hoodwinked a defendant in a high-profile terrorism case into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from further prosecutions, a federal judge said Monday. Monday’s hearing in U.S. District Court was the latest in which Judge[Read More…]
March 11, 2009 By Scott Horton Link: Click here The Associated Press reports:The Justice Department may have hoodwinked a defendant in a high-profile terrorism case into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from further prosecutions, a federal judge said Monday. Monday’s hearing in U.S. District Court was the latest[Read More…]
TIME MAGAZINE DEC. 19, 2005 Handing the Justice Department one of its most embarrassing post-9/11 defeats, the jurors last week acquitted al-Arian BY: TIM PADGET Link: Click here That evidence, presented in a 2003 federal indictment, may well be damning stuff in the U.S. court of public opinion. But a[Read More…]
The Daily Star Beirut, Lebanon Inside America December 17, 2005Ron Chepesiuk Can an Arab and anti-Israel activist get a fair trial in post 9-11 America, especially when its government has the unprecedented power of the Patriot Act to pursue investigations, while much of the media abandons its independent role and[Read More…]
LAW.com Acquittal in terrorism trial described as ‘colossal embarrassment’ for Bush administration’s Justice Department Julie Kay December 15, 2005 Link: Click here As soon as they read the indictment, attorney William B. Moffitt and co-counsel Linda Moreno made the call to present no witnesses, evidence or documents to refute the[Read More…]
St. Petersburg Times Dong-Phuong Nguyen July 26, 2003 Link: Click here TAMPA – Fired University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, facing life in prison if convicted of having terrorist ties, will represent himself in court. During a hearing in federal court in Tampa on Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas[Read More…]
Neither prosecutors nor defense attorneys recall the former USF professor calling the U.S. “the great Satan.” By MEG LAUGHLIN Published May 4, 2006 Link:Click here TAMPA – When U.S. District Judge James Moody delivered a stinging rebuke of Sami Al-Arian Monday, he began by accusing him of publicly praising the[Read More…]
Inter Press ServicesBy Ali Gharib July 2, 2008 Link: Click here WASHINGTON – Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank.[Read More…]
InterPress Service (IPS) By Ali Gharib Dec 20, 2007 Link: Click here Sami Al-Arian with son Ali and daughter Lama WASHINGTON, (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Lama Al-Arian looked up into a camera with a broad smile two years ago and called her father a “political prisoner”. But her eyes betray her[Read More…]
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