[Peace-discuss] Don't Hold Your Breath for an Apology

[David Green]

This article and yesterday's acquittal bookend the
time that Sami al-Arian has spent in prison--assuming
he is to be released shortly.> 

ADL Commends Law Enforcement For Arrests Of
> Suspected Terrorist
> Supporters
> 
> Miami, FL, February 20, 2003 ... The Anti-Defamation
> League (ADL)
> commended federal law enforcement for taking steps
> to root out terrorism
> with today's arrests of several men suspected of
> aiding and abetting
> international terrorist groups, including that of a
> tenured Florida
> professor previously accused of having ties to Hamas
> and Islamic Jihad.
> Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian college professor at
> the University of
> South Florida, was arrested on a federal indictment
> in Tampa. 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> Backgrounder: Sami Al-Arian
> <http://dev.adl.org/Terror/terrorism_al-arian.asp> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> "We are gratified that the federal authorities have
> taken this decisive
> step in countering alleged fundraising and material
> support activities
> for terrorist organizations including Hamas and
> Islamic Jihad," said
> Arthur Teitelbaum, ADL Southern Area Director.
> "Al-Arian's arrest is
> particularly significant, as this is an individual
> who has long been
> suspected of having close ties with leaders of
> terrorist groups."
> 
> "Al-Arian claims his arrest is 'all about
> politics,'" Mr. Teitelbaum
> said. "Well, it is about politics. It's his support
> for the politics of
> violence and terror."
> 
> In 1991, Al-Arian founded the World and Islam
> Studies Enterprise (WISE),
> a think-tank that was under contract with the
> University of South
> Florida, where Al-Arian is a tenured professor in
> engineering and
> computer science. He also was a founder of Islamic
> Committee for
> Palestine, a nonprofit group that once hosted
> conferences where speakers
> expressed support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
> 
> The former director of WISE, Ramadan Abdullah
> Shallah, disappeared in
> 1995 and later resurfaced in Damascus, Syria as the
> head of Islamic
> Jihad, a group designated as an international
> sponsor of terrorism by
> the U.S. State Department.
> > 
> Read more online on our web site at 
> http://www.adl.org/PresRele/TerrorismIntl_93/4233_93
>  
> The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the
> world's leading
> organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs
> and services that
> counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.




		
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