February 1, 2007 TomPaine.com By Sarah Shields Link: Click here Sarah Shields teaches Middle East history at UNC/Chapel Hill. “Has anyone told you that you look like Gandhi?” my companion asked Professor Sami al-Arian. Al-Arian was sitting behind a plastic wall, wearing striped prison clothes and speaking into two telephones.[Read More…]
EXCLUSIVE: Hunger-Striking Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian Speaks Out In First Broadcast Interview of His Four-Year Imprisonment Democracy Now!, February 7, 2007 Link: Click here In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Sami Al-Arian speaks to us from prison where is on a hunger-strike. The Palestinian professor and activist ’s case has been[Read More…]
Truthdig.com, February 11, 2007 By Chris Hedges Link: Click here or here Editor’s note: Despite spending an estimated $80 million, the government was unable to prove that Dr. Sami Al-Arian was a terrorist, yet he remains in prison and his sentence will likely be extended. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges[Read More…]
January 27, 2006 USF Oracle Editorial Link:Click here His lawyers are tired, the American Civil Liberties Union is tired, and most of all, Sami Al-Arian, who has been in jail since February 2003, is tired. After six months of trial in which the jury in Al-Arian’s case found him not[Read More…]
February 20, 2006 USF Oracle by Ryan Blackburn Link:Click here Dozens of local religious leaders, activists and well wishers prayed and sang “We shall overcome” outside Orient Road Jail in Tampa on Sunday. They came to call for the release of former USF professor Sami Al- Arian, who has been[Read More…]
February 20, 2006 St. Petersburg Times By Rick Gershman Link:Click here Protesters at the Orient Road Jail see no reason why the former professor should remain in jail or be retried. TAMPA – Three years after his arrest, and more than two months after a federal trial returned no convictions,[Read More…]
February 20, 2006 USF Oracle In only his second interview since being arrested exactly three years ago on terrorism-related charges, former USF professor Sami Al- Arian discusses his trial, the conditions of his incarceration and the suffering his family has endured. by Ryan Blackburn Link:Click here “I woke up and[Read More…]
March 3, 2006 St. Petersburg TimesThe Rev. Warren Clark is an outspoken supporter of the imprisoned former USF professor. By Sheryl Kay Link:Click here TEMPLE TERRACE – During his seminary days, Pastor Warren Clark earned the nickname “el hippie.” An avowed pacifist, he also believed the ministry should promote nonviolence[Read More…]
March 19, 2006 St. Petersburg Times When the government charged Sameeh Hammoudeh with terrorism-related activities, it used transcripts from wiretaps that may have been unfairly edited. By Meg Laughlin Link:Click here On that chilly day three years ago when Hammoudeh was arrested, two FBI agents handcuffed him and drove him[Read More…]
April 17, 2006 Creative Loafing, JohnSugg.comBy John Sugg Sami Al-Arian’s case is near an end. He has agreed to plead guilty to one of the lesser counts in the indictment against him. He admits he participated in the activities of Palestinian Islamic Jihad prior to Jan. 24, 1994, and that[Read More…]
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