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"Tony McDonald, a member of the University of Texas Young Conservatives, sets up a protest anti- American Civil Liberties Union nativity scene, dubbed a 'solstice barn,' on the university's campus in Austin December 4, 2006. The display features a 'Nancy Pelosi' angel, a 'suicide bomber' shepherd, and Marx, Lenin and Stalin as the Three Wise Men." "Josh Perry, a member of the University of Texas Young Conservatives, spreads hay as he sets up a protest anti-American Civil Liberties Union nativity scene, dubbed a 'solstice barn,' on the university's campus in Austin, Texas December 4, 2006. The display features a...

WASHINGTON, April 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Former University of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a specially designated terrorist organization, in violation of U.S. law, the Department of Justice announced today. In a closed proceeding before a federal magistrate at U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida last week, Al- Arian pleaded guilty to Count Four of the indictment against him -- a charge of conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of...

Democrats' imam supported al-Arian Chaplain who gave benediction was character witness to terror supporter The Muslim imam who gave a closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention in Boston also served as a character witness to Sami al-Arian, the Florida professor indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on 50 counts of terror-related charges. On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Imam Yahya Hendi said the closing prayer of the night with some verses from the Quran. Yet, last July, the 9-11 commission heard testimony from terrorism expert Steven Emerson that Hendi, one of the top Islamic clerics in...

supported al-Arian This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39701 Thursday, July 29, 2004 Democrats' imam supported al-ArianChaplain who gave benediction was character witness to terror supporter Posted: July 29, 20049:20 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Muslim imam who gave a closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention in Boston also served as a character witness to Sami al-Arian, the Florida professor indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on 50 counts of terror-related charges. On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Imam Yahya Hendi said the closing prayer of...

TAMPA, Fla. - For nearly a decade, the FBI tapped Sami Al-Arian's telephones and faxes, keeping what they learned about the University of South Florida professor a secret — even from their own colleagues. The law at the time didn't allow the agents to share what they knew with fellow FBI agents who later began investigating possible criminal charges against Al-Arian, accused of aiding terrorists. That all changed in the spring of 2002 when the Patriot Act, the law enacted in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, gave the government greatly expanded surveillance and search powers. Now, nearly...

Al-Arian terror financing case puts Patriot Act to the test By VICKIE CHACHEREAssociated Press Writer TAMPA, Fla. -- For nearly a decade, FBI intelligence agents had been taping the telephones and intercepting the faxes of Sami Al-Arian and keeping secret what they knew about the professor's suspected ties to Palestinian terrorists - even from their colleagues working a criminal case against the same man. The full breadth of what the bureau knew about Al-Arian and others connected to the professor's charity, Muslim school and think tank was finally revealed in the spring of 2002. FBI Agent Joe Navarro walked into...

TAMPA - Sami Al-Arian used his computer savvy to help Palestinian Islamic Jihad planners secretly communicate with each other, according to a sworn statement from an FBI agent. The allegation against Al-Arian, a former computer science professor at the University of South Florida, was contained in documents unsealed Thursday by a federal judge at the request of Al-Arian's defense team. Among the unsealed documents was an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Kerry L.Myers requesting searches of the homes of Al-Arian and his co-defendants. The searches were conducted on Feb. 21, when they were arrested on charges they provided material support...

Why We Are Publishing This Article by David HorowitzThe article you are about to read is the most disturbing that we at frontpagemag.com have ever published. As an Internet magazine, with a wide circulation, we have been in the forefront of the effort to expose the radical Fifth Column in this country, whose agendas are at odds with the nation’s security, and whose purposes are hostile to its own. In his first address to Congress after 9/11, the President noted that we are facing the same totalitarian enemies we faced in the preceding century. It is not surprising that their...

WASHINGTON -- A former Democratic congressman years ago hampered FBI efforts to investigate terrorist suspects in his Arab-dominated district in Detroit, which is now a hotbed for al-Qaida sympathizers and cells, former FBI officials say. Former Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., led a campaign on Capitol Hill to pressure the FBI to back off an intelligence-gathering operation in Detroit aimed at deterring terrorism during the last Gulf war. Former Rep. David Bonior and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., in Baghdad Under the short-lived counter-terrorism program, started by then-Assistant FBI Director William Baker in 1990, FBI agents tried to cultivate Arab sources and...

Professor recalls now notorious A&T student 3-4-03 By JOHN NEWSOM, Staff Writer News & Record The last time N.C. A&T got so many calls from the national media, the university was unveiling a statue of the Greensboro Four, four students who refused to leave a whites-only lunch counter and launched the sit-in movement. But none of the reporters contacting A&T lately have wanted to discuss this civil rights milestone or A&T's most famous graduate, Jesse Jackson. Instead, they want to know about A&T graduate Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a suspected terrorist with a $25 million bounty on his head who was...

WASHINGTON – The brother-in-law of alleged terrorist co-conspirator Sami al-Arian attended engineering classes at the same college and time as the suspected mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror plot, records at the North Carolina college show. The overlap raises questions about the extent of al-Arian's ties to terrorist groups. He and his brother-in-law, Mazen al-Najjar, have been accused by federal authorities of supporting Hamas, a Palestinian militia responsible for anti-Israeli suicide bombings, through an elaborate network of terrorist front groups and fund-raising arms. Mazen al-Najjar Al-Najjar, a Palestinian refugee, was arrested in 1997 and deported last year. Al-Arian, who also...

<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) --  A deported Palestinian professor who had been jailed on secret evidence that prosecutors said linked him to terrorism apparently is without a country again.</p> <p>Mazen Al-Najjar, a former University of South Florida engineering instructor, was kicked out of Lebanon Wednesday, where he had been dropped off by U.S. immigration authorities last month, his family said.</p>

TAMPA -- Former University of South Florida instructor Mazen Al-Najjar flew to Bahrain on Thursday, a move his family hoped would end a seven-year legal saga. But new complications arose late in the evening when an official with the Embassy of Bahrain in Washington, D.C., said his country would reject Al-Najjar when he arrived. Jamal Rowaie, second secretary at the embassy, told the Times that the two-week visa Al-Najjar obtained was intended for "ordinary people" who want to visit the tiny Middle Eastern country. He did not know why the visa was granted in the first place. "His case is...

<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A deported Palestinian professor who had been jailed on secret evidence that prosecutors said linked him to terrorism landed in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday, supporters said.</p> <p>Mazen Al-Najjar was granted a six-month visa, and arrangements have been made for him to move permanently from Lebanon to another country, his brother-in-law, Sami Al-Arian, said at a news conference.</p>

<p>A Palestinian activist from Tampa imprisoned for more than three years on secret evidence and then rearrested and held without criminal charges for nine months will be released and deported this week, his attorneys said Sunday night.</p> <p>The case of Mazen al-Najjar, a Muslim cleric and part-time college teacher, has been closely watched by civil libertarians concerned that the nation's battle against terrorism could be eroding constitutional freedoms.</p>

<p>October 24, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - Terror master Osama bin Laden bought samples of anthrax by mail from shady laboratories in Eastern Europe and Asia for as little as $10,000, a former follower has told authorities in Egypt.</p> <p>The astonishing claim of how easily - and cheaply - the world's most wanted terrorist was able to acquire anthrax and other deadly germ agents was made in a 143-page confession of former extremist Ahmad Ibrahim al-Najjar at a recent trial of more than 100 members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.</p>

Israel Ties Al-Arian To Jihad Board By MICHAEL FECHTER mfechter@tampatrib.com Published: Jun 23, 2002 TEL AVIV - Sami Al-Arian, the professor being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for alleged ties to Middle East terrorists, helped found the governing council of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and then served on it, current and former senior Israeli intelligence officials say. The panel is called the Majlis Shura and functions like a Jihad board of directors. It has an unknown number of members and offers advice on such matters as money and organization. It appears to have been formed in the early 1990s,...

U.S. attorney: university professor accused of ties to alleged terrorists under criminal investigation &nbsp; 20:48 ET Associated Press Newswires Copyright 2002. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. TAMPA, Florida (AP) - A professor accused of having ties to alleged terrorists is being investigated by the U.S. government, the area's chief federal prosecutor said.Federal investigators are investigating the conduct and activities of Sami Al-Arian, a tenured Palestinian-born professor who has been at the University of South Florida for 16 years, U.S. Attorney Mac Cauley said Thursday. Years ago, Al-Arian headed an academic think tank that the U.S. government later linked ...

The Case of Sami Al-Arian By Ronald Radosh Professor Sami Al-Arian has been fired from his post at the University of South Florida –  not because he has been plausibly accused of collusion with terrorists – but supposedly because the threats and hate mail he is receiving may disrupt campus life. Is USF President Judy Genshaft deliberately trying to make Sami Al-Arian a leftist martyr? continue…

Analyst: Paper Outlines `Subversive Action` By MICHAEL FECHTER The outline envisions a vast covert intelligence and training operation spread throughout the United States. It describes an organization with everything from a team of researchers engaged in academic studies to groups that get military training. Investigators found the 29-page outline inside the home of University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian during a 1995 search. Al-Arian created an Islamic think tank called the World and Islam Studies Enterprise that worked with USF faculty from 1991 to 1995. Law enforcement officials maintain the think tank and a related charity, the ...