The Washington Post Tuesday, April 18, 2006 By: Spencer H. Hsu Link: Click Here Former Florida professor Sami al-Arian pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide support to a Palestinian terrorist organization and agreed to be deported from the United States in a deal with federal prosecutors, unsealed[Read More…]
TIME Magazine How the U.S. Lost a Terror Deal By Wendy Malloy/Tampa- Wednesday, Apr. 19, 2006 Link:Click here When federal prosecutors earlier this week announced a plea deal that will ultimately deport the controversial former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian, they hailed it as a major[Read More…]
St. Petersburg Times Al-Arian ordered to testify in casePublished September 26, 2006 His ex-lawyer believes this is a ploy to further punish Al-Arian, who will likely not testify and will be held in contempt. By: MEG LAUGHLINLink:Click here Sami Al-Arian, who is seven months away from leaving prison, is about[Read More…]
March 23, 2006 Creative Loafing Johnsugg.comLink:Click here If America still has liberty, free Sameeh Hammoudeh When an American or European is captured and held as a hostage in the Middle East, the press and public are horrified. Rightfully so. Every civilized person should repudiate events such as the kidnapping and[Read More…]
St. Petersburg Times January 27, 2006 Link:Click here Lawyers state case in closed hearing Sami Al-Arian’s attorneys have asked to be removed from the case; the judge promised a ruling by Feb. 11. By MEG LAUGHLIN TAMPA – Lawyers for Sami Al-Arian explained to the judge why they wanted off[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…]
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs July 2006 By Paul Findley Link:Click here There is no victory to celebrate and no trophy to display. Time magazine got it right: “Federal prosecutors are hailing Florida professor Sami Al-Arian’s plea agreement as a victory in the war on terror. But as with[Read More…]
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs July 2006 By Melva Underbakke Link:Click here Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has been waging a war—a war against some of its own people. This war receives less attention than the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it is no less real.[Read More…]
St. Petersburg Times Letters to the Editor Published May 5, 2006 Link:Click here Re: Al-Arian sentencing. It was shocking and surprising to find federal Judge James Moody exercising his right of free speech in the courtroom at the sentencing hearing for Dr. Sami Al-Arian on Monday. Perhaps a pro-Israeli, progovernment[Read More…]
CounterPunch Sami al-Arian’s Final Persecution By JOHN F. SUGG May 4, 2006 Link:Click here You have to wonder about a few things in the May 1 sentencing of Sami Al-Arian. For example, Alberto Gonzalez–the “torture-is-OK” and “no-law-binds-the-president” U.S. attorney general”–flew into the Tampa Bay area five days before the courtroom[Read More…]
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