April 25, 2006 St. Petersburg Times Disagreements appear to have triggered a defense lawyer’s request to withdraw from the case in December. By Meg Laughlin Link:Click here TAMPA – In the secret courtroom negotiations over Sami Al-Arian’s plea deal last week, a federal magistrate said he didn’t agree with defense[Read More…]
April 28, 2006 St. Petersburg Times Unsealed transcripts of court hearings tell the story of the plea deal. By Meg Laughlin Link:Click here TAMPA – For months after Sami Al-Arian’s terrorism-related trial, there were rumors of secret negotiations between federal prosecutors and defense attorneys. But no one, besides the judge[Read More…]
November 10, 2006 St. Petersburg Times He says a U.S. prosecutor openly condemned Islam and is aiming to stretch his client’s sentence. By Meg Laughlin Link:Click here Documents unsealed in the Sami Al-Arian case Thursday raise questions about an assistant U.S. attorney’s motives for requiring Al-Arian to testify before a[Read More…]
November 15, 2006 Creative LoafingBy John F. Sugg and Wayne Garcia Link:Click here Michael Fechter, whose reporting led to the decade-long federal investigation of Sami Al-Arian, and Cherie Krigsman, one of the case’s federal prosecutors, are an item. Fechter confirmed to Creative Loafing this week that he and Krigsman have[Read More…]
November 17, 2006 St. Petersburg TimesBy Meg Laughlin Link:Click here Sami Al-Arian, who has 174 days left on a 57-month sentence for aiding a terrorist group with nonviolent activities, was found guilty of contempt in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday. His sentence will now be put on hold[Read More…]
December 4, 2006 Truthdig.comBy Chris Hedges Link:Click here The Democrats may have taken control of the House and Senate, but we still live in George Bush’s America. It is an America the imprisoned Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who has spent over two years in isolation, knows intimately. Dr. Al-Arian,[Read More…]
Jan. 19, 2005Why 20 years to build the Al-Arian case? Maybe the evidence wasn’t there. By John F. Sugg Link: Click here Sami Al-Arian must pose a very serious threat to the United States. After all, the government has spent tens of millions of your dollars over two decades trying[Read More…]
Feb 21, 2005 St. Petersburg TimesBy Anthony McCartney TAMPA – Singing protest songs and reading poetry written by Sami Al-Arian, about 60 people on Sunday commemorated the former professor’s two-year anniversary in jail. The group held a candlelight vigil outside the Orient Road Jail, where Al-Arian is being housed while[Read More…]
Mar. 2, 2005 St. Petersburg Times Lawyers for the former USF professor may try to move his terrorism trial away from Tampa. By Curtis Krueger Link: Click here TAMPA – Attorneys for former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian probably will try to move his upcoming terrorism trial away[Read More…]
Mar 3, 2005 Tampa Tribune Kendra Gayle Lee* Link: Click here Christians are called upon to be stewards of peace. We cannot turn our backs on our brothers and sisters who are persecuted or in need of our compassion. Our united voice against injustice must begin in our own community.[Read More…]
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