Dec. 8, 2005 St. Petersburg Times A juror says the case against Sami Al-Arian left them overwhelmed. Now prosecutors have to decide whether to try again. By Meg Laughlin and Justin George Link: Click here TAMPA – After the first full day of jury deliberations in the Sami Al-Arian trial,[Read More…]
Dec. 7, 2005 Huffingtonpost.comBy Eric Boehlert Link: Click here Courtroom defeats for prosecutors don’t come much more embarrassing than the one suffered Tuesday in the Florida terror trial of Sami Al-Arian, who was acquitted on key charges of abetting terrorists. Along with three other defendants, Al-Arian, a former University of[Read More…]
Dec. 7, 2005 Huffingtonpost.comBy Eric Boehlert Link: Click here Courtroom defeats for prosecutors don’t come much more embarrassing than the one suffered Tuesday in the Florida terror trial of Sami Al-Arian, who was acquitted on key charges of abetting terrorists. Along with three other defendants, Al-Arian, a former University of[Read More…]
Weekly PlanetDecember 29, 2004By John F. Sugg Link: Click here In case you were wandering around the Florida wilderness recently and heard a mighty “ka-boom!” — it might have been FBI agent Kerry Myers blowing up a bus. Somehow, Myers’ exercise in pyromania is supposed to be “evidence” in the[Read More…]
The Tampa TribuneNovember 13, 2004By William March TAMPA – Citing fallout from Florida’s U.S. Senate race and voluminous evidence to be reviewed, a federal judge has granted a request to delay from January to April the trial of accused terrorist supporter Sami Al-Arian. By setting a start date of April[Read More…]
Weekly Planet August 12, 2004By John F. Sugg Link: Click here Nothing triggers the onset of media weak bladders in the Tampa Bay area faster than a discussion that involves Middle East politics. Example: As the Weekly Planet pointed out last week, a Jacksonville man named Harry Shapiro six years[Read More…]
St. Petersburg TimesAugust 6, 2004By Graham Brink Link: Click here TAMPA – The case against accused terrorist Sami Al-Arian just became harder to prove, though how much harder is under debate. Prosecutors must do more than prove that the former University of South Florida professor and his three co-defendants sent[Read More…]
Miami HeraldAugust 6, 2004 By Jay Weaver A federal judge has made the government’s terrorism case against a fired University of South Florida professor more difficult for prosecutors, ruling they must show his financing of a Palestinian charity group went specifically for murderous attacks on Israelis. U.S. District Judge James[Read More…]
Weekly PlanetAugust 5, 2004By John Sugg Link: Click here “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” is an argument that has been espoused by the likes of George H.W. Bush, Oliver North and Margaret Thatcher. Now that thinking — on the part of the U.S. Justice Department — could[Read More…]
Democracy Now!July 9, 2004Dr. Al-Arian’s Attorney on Democracy Now Link: Click here On Friday, July 9, one of Dr. Al-Arian’s attorneys, Linda Moreno was featured on Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now,” a radio news program broadcast on over 200 stations across the country. As a result of the program, a number[Read More…]
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