My Father, 9/11 Scapegoat, Huffingtonpost.com, April 24, 2007 By Laila Al-ArianLink: Click here “If they can kill each other during Ramadan, they can appear before the grand jury. I am not going to put off Dr. Al- Arian’s grand jury appearance just to assist in what is becoming the Islamization[Read More…]
IN CONVERSATION… USA VS AL-ARIAN Programmer Angie Driscoll interviews filmmaker Line Halvorsen Link: Click here A passionate activist and pro-Palestinian, professor Sami Al-Arian was charged with terrorism and held in prison without trial for two- and-a-half years. USA VS AL-ARIAN is an intimate family portrait that documents the strain brought[Read More…]
New York Sun, April 19, 2007By Josh Gerstein Link: Click here Authorities have opened an inquiry into claims that federal guards abused and threatened a prominent Palestinian Arab inmate, Sami Al- Arian, as he was being transferred last week to a jail in Northern Virginia from a prison hospital in[Read More…]
Trial of Al-Arian has profited the government nothingEditorial, USF Oracle, Mar. 26, 2007Link: Click here For now, Sami Al-Arian may have lost his legal fight. But his loss is America’s, too. The decision passed down Friday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied Al-Arian’s appeal and upheld[Read More…]
The News & Observer Mar 25, 2007 Vigil staged for Palestinian scholarby: Jim WiseLink: Click here BUTNER – About 60 people held a two-hour vigil beside Interstate 85 on Saturday for an imprisoned former college professor accused of conspiring with Palestinian terrorists. Sami al-Arian is being held at the Federal[Read More…]
St. Petersburg TimesMarch 1, 2007 Link: Click here BUTNER, N.C. Sami Al-Arian passed the 38th day of his prison hunger strike Wednesday. The former Univeristy of South Florida professor has lost 43 pounds and was having great difficulty standing up in a federal prison hospital in Butner, N.C. “We will[Read More…]
Creative LoafingFeb. 28, 2007 Thanks to a new documentary, the Al-Arians are celebrities in a country fascinated with their case BY SEÁN KINANE Link: Click here OSLO, Norway — Before daylight on the day that marked four years of Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s imprisonment, his eldest daughter Laila and wife Nahla[Read More…]
InterPress Service (IPS) By Ali Gharib Dec 20, 2007 Link: Click here Sami Al-Arian with son Ali and daughter Lama WASHINGTON, (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Lama Al-Arian looked up into a camera with a broad smile two years ago and called her father a “political prisoner”. But her eyes betray her[Read More…]
Electronic Intifada Crossing the Line April 23, 2007 Link:Crossing the Line: Audio Interview with Nahla Al-Arian
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…]
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