The New York Sun July 28, 2008 by: Josh Gerstein Link:Click here Add to del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Facebook Add to Newsvine A federal prosecutor who has led a series of investigations into Islamic militants and Muslim groups based in Virginia, Gordon Kromberg, may soon be facing a[Read More…]
Wall Street Journal Law’s Blog Sep. 15, 2008 By Ashby Jones Link: Click here It’s not often that an assistant U.S. Attorney gets singled out and criticized by name (far more frequent, it seems, are attacks on an entire U.S. Attorney’s office or the Justice Department itself.) But the Washington[Read More…]
Inter Press ServicesBy Ali Gharib July 2, 2008 Link: Click here WASHINGTON – Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank.[Read More…]
Znet/Zmag.org August 11, 2008 Interview with Laila Al-Arian Link: Click here Dr. Sami Al-Arian, one of the earliest victims of the “war on terror” within the U.S. itself, continues to languish in jail, where he has been since his February 2003 arrest for the “crime” of speaking out on behalf[Read More…]
InterPress News, Alternet.org Ali Gharib July 3, 2008 Link: Click here WASHINGTON, Jul 2 (IPS) — Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a Northern[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…]
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 August 3, 2008 By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Link:Click here Efforts to free Sami al-Arian have now reached the U.S. Supreme Court. On July 30 an appeal was lodged with the Court by his attorneys, led by Professor Jonathan Turley. There are few prospects in the justice system so grimly awful[Read More…]
antiwar.com, April 26, 2008By Charley Reese, syndicated columnist Link:Click here When our government acts, it acts in our name. If its acts are lawful and honorable, all’s well and good. When they are dishonorable, we have a choice: Either we dissent or assent, even if by our silence. In the[Read More…]
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November 2008, pages 12-13 Special Report By Delinda C. Hanley Link: Click here After being released from a federal detention center in Fairfax, VA on Sept. 2, Sami Al-Arian (c) sits with his family (l-r): daughter Leena, wife Nahla, daugher Laila, and sons Abdullah[Read More…]
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