May 12, 2006
Judge Keeps Sami Al-Arian in Jail for an Additional 18 Months
Sami Al-Arian's three-year ordeal behind bars seemed to be nearing an end, but it just got an unexpected extension. Calling the former computer-engineering professor a "master manipulator," a federal judge in Florida last week sentenced him to serve one and a half more years in jail before he is deported on terrorism-related charges.
The decision, by Judge James S. Moody Jr., of the U.S. District Court, in Tampa, exceeds the prosecutors' recommended punishment for Mr. Al-Arian, whose
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