Archive for February, 2009

Holding their Breath: Al-Arian’s children wait for the jury

Dec. 2, 2005 The Chronicle of Higher Education Sami Al-Arian’s children wait for the jury to decide his fate. By John Gravois Link:Click here The day before the first real cold snap hit New York in November, Laila Al-Arian was running through the 13th floor of the Manhattan Criminal Courts[Read More…]

by February 27, 2009 0 comments Latest News

Growing up Al-Arian

May 12, 2005 St. Petersburg Times It’s just like any other childhood. And completely different. By Vanessa Gezari Link:Click here TAMPA – Ali is at the computer, reading about an Internet hoax. A man is threatening to eat a pet rabbit unless he gets $50,000. “We have to go,” Leena[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments Latest News

AAUP Condemns Actions of University of South Florida Administration

Annual Meeting Resolution AAUP Resolution Condemning the Administration of the University of South Florida (see resolution below) Investigating Committee’s report Academic Freedom and Tenure: University of South Florida and Dr. Sami Al-Arian (see entire report below) Committee A’s recommendation Committee A’s Recommendation on University Of South Florida ——— —(see statement[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments Documents & Releases

Bush’s War on Civil Liberties: The Case of Sami Al-Arian (6/3)

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[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments 2008

Sami Al-Arian, Catch-22, and the Tragedy of Post-9/11 America (4/13)

Daily Kos by John Halliwell Apr 13, 2008 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[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments 2008

Bush Administration: We’re Working on the Legalities (5/12)

Daily Kos by John Halliwell Mon May 12, 2008 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[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments 2008

Professor in Deadlocked Terrorism Case Could Face a New Indictment (4/18)

New York Times By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: April 18, 2008 Link: Click here 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[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments 2008

Indicted, Sami Al-Arian Faces Possible Life Imprisonment (7/1)

Daily Kos by John Halliwell Tue Jul 1, 2008 Last March, Sami Al-Arian was given a choice: 1) damned if you do; and 2) damned if you don’t; he chose “damned if you don’t”. Finally, a full three months after making that decision, he was formally charged last Thursday with[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments 2008

Peter Erlinder: The Torture of Sami Al-Arian (3/11)

March 11, 2008 Jurist JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, attorney on appeal for Dr. Sami Al Arian, says that the treatment accorded the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa – now on hunger strike and in danger of irreversible renal failure[Read More…]

by February 26, 2009 0 comments 2008

Chris Hedges: Dr. Al-Arian’s Third Strike (3/8)

March 8, 2008 TruthDig.org By Chris Hedges Link: Click here or here The Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, imprisoned for four years despite a jury’s failure to return a single guilty verdict against him, has gone on a hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va. Al-Arian,[Read More…]

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