December 16, 2005

Al-Arian Acquitted of 8 Terrorism Charges

By JOHN GRAVOIS

Jury deadlocks on 9 other charges in former Florida professor's case

A federal jury in Tampa, Fla., found Sami Al-Arian not guilty on eight charges related to terrorism last week and deadlocked on nine other counts against the former professor.

Mr. Al-Arian, who was fired in 2003 from his tenured post in computer engineering at the University of South Florida, was accused of conspiring with a group called Palestinian Islamic Jihad to incite suicide bombings in Israel, Gaza, and

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