St. Petersburg TimesSeptember 3, 2003By Susan Taylor Martin Link: Click here When former University of South Florida instructor Mazen Al-Najjar was deported last year, it took a private jet, four pilots and a four- man escort to get him from Florida to Beirut, Lebanon. It also cost U.S. taxpayers at[Read More…]
St. Petersburg TimesSeptember 9, 2003By CHRISTOPHER GOFFARD Link: Click here Casting himself as a First Amendment martyr being persecuted for expressing unpopular political views, Sami Al-Arian is asking a federal judge to drop charges that he aided terrorists. In documents made public Monday in U.S. District Court, the former University[Read More…]
The Independent (London)September 10, 2003By Andrew Gumbel Link: Click here A Palestinian university professor being held in solitary confinement on terrorism charges in Florida has urged a federal judge to throw out his case, saying it amounted to a “thoughtless slaughter of First Amendment rights” and sought to criminalise him[Read More…]
Associated PressBy Vickie Chachere October 31, 2003 TAMPA, Fla. — A prominent Washington attorney taking on the defense of a former professor indicted on charges he raised money for Islamic terrorists said Friday his first challenge to the government is to justify the conditions under which his client is being[Read More…]
The Tampa TribuneNovember 8, 2003 By Elaine Silvestrini TAMPA – Sami Al-Arian may suffer mental problems as a result of the severely restrictive conditions he is being held under in a maximum security federal prison, Al-Arian’s defense attorney told a judge Friday. Attorney William Moffitt said he plans to have[Read More…]
The Tampa TribuneNov. 29, 2003By Elaine Silvestrini TAMPA – Sami Al-Arian’s new attorney has dedicated his professional life to holding the U.S. government to the principles it espouses to the rest of the world. William Moffitt recently began representing the former University of South Florida professor accused of being a[Read More…]
St. Petersburg TimesDecember 2, 2003 Interpretation of key evidence used to build the case against the suspected terrorism supporter is inaccurate, a co-defendant says. By Graham Brink TAMPA – One of Sami Al-Arian’s co-defendants says federal prosecutors misinterpreted and distorted the taped conversations used to indict him on terrorism charges.[Read More…]
Chicago TribuneDecember 9, 2003 Key documents in Al-Arian case destroyed By Geneive Abdo CHICAGO – A federal magistrate has disclosed that documents that could be critical in the government’s prosecution of a Palestinian charged as an Islamic militant in the United States have been destroyed, potentially undermining the ability of[Read More…]
The Tampa TribuneDec. 18, 2003 Al-Arian Attorneys Curious About Shredding By Elaine Silvestrini TAMPA – Sami Al-Arian’s defense team wants to know more about the mistaken shredding of original court documents relating to searches of Al- Arian’s home and offices in 1995. Attorneys William B. Moffitt and Linda Moreno filed[Read More…]
Media Monitors Network June 29, 2005 By William Hughes Link: Click here “The late Ben Hecht tried to save the Jews of Europe from the Nazi onslaught. Sami Al-Arian is struggling to lift the cruel Israeli occupation off the backs of the Palestinians. Hecht was praised for his First Amendment[Read More…]
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