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Prosecutors said they "stand by the evidence" they presented in court, which they insist showed that al-Arian gave illegal "material support" to a terrorist group. Despite his acquittal, al-Arian remained behind bars last week as prosecutors pondered whether to retry him on the charges the jurors deadlocked on...
The FBI began investigating al-Arian shortly after he came to U.S.F. in 1986 and started making speeches like one in 1988 calling for "death to Israel!" He fell under scrutiny in 1995, when Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, a Palestinian economist who had helped direct the World and Islam Studies Enterprise...
The intelligence showed that al-Arian was funneling thousands of dollars to Islamic Jihad figures and advising Shallah on issues such as how to make Iran a "strategic partner" and how to handle the wills of two suicide bombers. Still, it offered no real links between al-Arian and terrorist...
One big weakness in the case was adequate translation of the more than 20,000 hours of mostly Arabic conversation: "We asked for 13 translators, and Justice gave us one. We weren't ready" for a trial, says the supervisor. The federal judge in the case, James Moody, seemed to...
Goss ordered the review amid concerns that sloppy procedures contributed to the recent disclosure that nearly three years ago, CIA operatives in Milan snatched Egyptian terrorist-suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and flew him to Cairo--where the Islamic cleric claims he was tortured; to throw the Italians off the...