CounterPunchApril 9, 2007 The U.S. government has gone out of its way to make an example of this outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights. Racist prosecutors, inhumane treatment and abuse in custody, the prospect of indefinite detention–Al-Arian has been subjected to this and more in the four years he’s been behind[Read More…]
Dissident Voice Nicole Colson September 6th, 2008 Link: Click here In a long-overdue victory, Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Al-Arian was released on bail September 2 and reunited with members of his family for the first time since his arrest in early 2003. “[I]t feels very unbelievable and surreal that he’s[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…]
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…]
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…]
New York Times Fiery Palestinian advocate Sami Al-Arian, 3 co-defendants cleared in high-profile trial Link: Click here Eric Lichtblau, December 7, 2005 Stimulus not enough for state in short-term 03.10.09 The former professor, Sami Al-Arian, a fiery advocate for Palestinian causes who became a lightning rod for criticism nationwide over[Read More…]
Al-Ahram Weekly International March 19, 2003 The Bush administration’s war on terror has targeted Arabs right, left and centre; Sami Al-Arian is a case in point. Sherine Bahaa Link: Click here “Politics” was how computer science professor Sami Al- Arian summed up the motivation behind the phone book- sized indictment[Read More…]
Dissident Voice by Eileen Fleming / March 15th, 2008 Link:Click here American Palestinian Professor Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, has spent the last five years behind bars although NO jury ever returned a single guilty verdict against him. On March 3, 2008 he began his third hunger strike in Northern Neck[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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