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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search March 22, 2008Al-Arian, Refusing Grand-Jury Subpoena, May Be Detained Rather Than DeportedSami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor due to be released from prison next month after pleading guilty to a charge of helping terrorists, may instead spend additional time in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury, according to The Washington Post. Mr. Al-Arian was arrested in 2003 and accused of conspiring to incite suicide bombings in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. He was subsequently dismissed from his post as a tenured professor of computer engineering at the university. But after a high-profile trial, a jury found him innocent on eight changes and deadlocked on nine others. In May 2006, following negotiations with federal prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to a charge of aiding a terrorist organization. He was to serve additional prison time and then be deported. According to his lawyers, prosecutors agreed informally during plea bargaining that Mr. Al-Arian would not be called to testify against Muslim charities that the government says have funneled money to terrorists. But now the government argues that nothing prevents prosecutors from seeking his testimony, and Mr. Al-Arian is to be transferred to a prison in Virginia to be held on contempt charges for refusing to testify. “The plea agreement is clear, unambiguous, and does not grant Al-Arian immunity from future grand jury subpoena,” said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice. A lawyer for Mr. Al-Arian, Jonathan Turley, accused the Justice Department of “setting a perjury trap” for the former professor, and also of having “daisy-chained three grand-jury investigations to prolong his incarceration.” —Lawrence Biemiller Posted on Saturday March 22, 2008 | Permalink |Comments
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al-Arian is where he belongs and should stay there. Otherwise, the long record of enabling thugs and psychopaths to murder defenseless civilians will continue to be enhance.
— Marty Mar 24, 01:20 PM #
Al-Arian is another victim of the Administration’s jihad against anyone not licking the boots of Israel.
— Greg Mar 24, 02:26 PM #
Al-Arian is a terrorist and should be deported from the United States.
— kvc Mar 24, 04:03 PM #
If he is, in fact, a terrorist, he should not be deported, but convicted and jailed here. Deporting a terrorist only makes it possible for him to, well, commit terrorism!
— paulo Mar 24, 06:29 PM #
You may be a business man or some high degree thief,
They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody. ——Bob Dylan
— marci Mar 24, 08:11 PM #
That Washington Post article is pretty innaccurate. I mean, look at the headline! “Terrorism Convict”? Last time I checked, he was found NOT guilty of 8 counts and had a hung jury on the rest (9-2, not guilty being the majority). The way the government is treating Al-Arian makes me wonder how far the government will keep going to get a conviction against anyone. They’ve already tarnished his image, slandered him and his family, brought him on the brink of death and refused to treat him. For shame!
— HokieInNYC Mar 26, 10:55 AM #