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In 1995, after a suicide bombing operation carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed 21 Israeli soldiers, University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian wrote a fund-raising letter in which he "call(s) upon you to try to extend true support to the jihad effort in Palestine so that operations such as these can continue." Many of Al-Arian's past statements and associations have raised suspicions that he was involved with terrorist organizations based in the Middle East. However, the fund-raising letter signed by al-Arian, shown during the Oct. 28 telecast of NBC's Dateline, is direct evidence of his ...

<p>The Clinton administration shut down a 1995 investigation of Islamic charities, concerned that a public probe would expose Saudi Arabia's suspected ties to a global money-laundering operation that raised millions for anti-Israel terrorists, federal officials told The Washington Times.</p> <p>Law enforcement authorities and others close to the aborted investigation said the State Department pressed federal officials to pull agents off the previously undisclosed probe after the charities were targeted in the diversion of cash to groups that fund terrorism.</p>

Government asks court to consider Sept. 11 in professor's case Friday, November 2, 2001 By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press TAMPA — The U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal appeals court to consider the Sept. 11 attacks when it hears the case of a professor accused of supporting terrorist groups. The government is not alleging Mazen Al-Najjar is connected to the attacks on New York and Washington. Al-Najjar spent more than three years detained as a threat to national security although he was never charged with a crime. In filings to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal in Miami ...