Associated Press Defense attorneys contest evidence in terror case Wednesday, November 24, 2004 TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Defense attorneys for a former professor accused of terrorism want a federal judge to throw out virtually all the government’s evidence, saying improper searches and inappropriate surveillance violated their client’s constitutional rights. Attorneys[Read More…]
Democracy Now October 28, 2004 Amy Goodman Link: Click here We take a look at the race for Florida’s U.S. senate seat between Democratic candidate Betty Castor and Republican candidate Mel Martinez where the case of jailed Palestinian professor Sami Al-Arian has become a major subject of debate. The Florida[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…]
Associated Press May 27, 2004By Vickie Chachere Link: Click here TAMPA, Fla. – An Islamic civil rights organization said Thursday that a former professor accused of financing terrorists is being held under inhumane conditions. The wife of former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian compared his treatment to the[Read More…]
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