Counterpunch Legislating Tyranny By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS and LAWRENCE M. STRATTON June 3, 2008 Link:Click here The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S. civil liberty that Bush justified in the name of the “war on[Read More…]
While the Bush Administration has, from time to time, done things which are – ahem – ethically questionable, it has usually made at least a half-hearted attempt to cover them with a veneer of legality. Occasionally, however, it will throw aside any such pretensions. Take Sami Al-Arian, a man who[Read More…]
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 2007By Peter ErlinderThe Ordeal of Dr. Sami Al-Arian Despite Acquittal on Terrorism Charges, No Prospect of Release for Dr. Al-Arian Link:Click here In happier days, the Al-Arian family celebrates Abdullah’s 2002 graduation from Duke University in North Carolina. From left: Laila, Ali, Abdullah,[Read More…]
Sami al-Arian, a computer science professor imprisoned for more than five years after pleading guilty to a single terrorism-related charge when his trial deadlocked, is back in legal limbo this week. He faces either deportation or a new indictment that could extend his incarceration for years. Link: Full Article Here
After a failed trial whose verdict was declared by Time Magazine to be “one of the Justice Department’s most embarrassing legal setbacks since 9/11,” the American government has been resorting to legal ruses and an outright manipulation of the judicial system to keep the high-profile Palestinian-American professor Sami Al-Arian imprisoned[Read More…]
March 24, 2008USF OracleBy Christine Gibson Link:Click here Sami Al-Arian, a former professor in USF’s College of Engineering who was arrested in 2003 on charges of supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, will face a grand jury either today or Tuesday for refusing to testify in a hearing that took place[Read More…]
December 3, 2007Huffingtonpost.comBy Laila Al-Arian Link:Click here For nearly one year, my father, Sami Al-Arian, has been imprisoned on civil contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in Virginia. During plea negotiations in early 2006, federal prosecutors in Florida promised him he would not have to testify[Read More…]
December 4, 2007Counterpunchby Russell Mokhiber Link:Click here or here If it’s Sunday night, it’s Civics 101 at the Mokhiber household. Last night, the home schooling Civics topic: U.S. Constitution. First Amendment. Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech. Let’s go to the DVD. USA v.Al-Arian. Let’s see if[Read More…]
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