The Independent, Apr. 7, 2007By Robert Fisk Link: Click here This systematic censorship of Middle East reality continues even in schools Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her[Read More…]
The Nation, Mar. 19, 2007By Alexander Cockburn Link: Click here One of the first big show trials here in the post-9/11 homeland was of a Muslim professor from Florida, now 49, Sami Al-Arian. Pro-Israel hawks had resented this computer professor at the University of South Florida long before Atta and[Read More…]
Salon.comBy pandering to anti-Arab hysteria, NBC, Fox News, Media General and Clear Channel radio disgraced themselves — and ruined an innocent professor’s life.By Eric Boehlert Link:Click here Jan. 19, 2002 | It may not provide him much comfort, but tenured University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, recently fired after[Read More…]
NO CONVICTIONS: The former USF professor and his co-defendants relieved after long, complicated case. DEADLOCK: Jurors can’t decide many counts. “Evidence making these guys terrorists just wasn’t there.” By MEG LAUGHLIN, JENNIFER LIBERTO and JUSTIN GEORGEPublished December 7, 2005 Link: Click here [Times photo: John Pendygraft] Nahla Al-Arian is thankful[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…]
St. Petersburg TimesMarch 14, 2004Op Ed: By Robyn E. Blumner In Bernard Malamud’s masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches. The story I read in middle school comes back to me as[Read More…]
Satirical Article*Disclaimer: Submitted anonymously, the following is a satirical column that reflects the growing dissatisfaction with the scandelous manner in which the government has conducted its investigation into Dr. Al-Arian and other American Muslim leaders, as well as the disgraceful way in which the media have reported on it. The[Read More…]
Dec. 7, 2005 Huffingtonpost.comBy Eric Boehlert Link:Click here Courtroom defeats for prosecutors don’t come much more embarrassing than the one suffered Tuesday in the Florida terror trial of Sami Al-Arian, who was acquitted on key charges of abetting terrorists. Along with three other defendants, Al-Arian, a former University of South[Read More…]
Dec. 12, 2005 The San Diego Union Tribune By George Bisharat Link:Click here Federal prosecutors suffered a stinging rebuke recently when a Florida jury refused to convict four Palestinian defendants on any of 51 counts alleging that they supported terrorist acts by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. That organization employs violence against[Read More…]
Dec. 11, 2005 St. Petersburg Times By Meg Laughlin 10 of the 12 jurors thought much of the case never connected Link:Click here TAMPA – When the federal government asked Joann Thanh to serve on the jury for the trial of Sami Al-Arian, which ended last week, she had a[Read More…]
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