WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have decided to deport a former University of South Florida professor and long-time Palestinian rights activist after failing to convict him on charges he helped finance terrorist attacks in Israel.Two lawyers familiar with the case say Sami Al-Arian has reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to a lesser charge and be deported.
The lawyers spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been made public by the court.
It isn't clear where Al-Arian will be sent.
Al-Arian has been in jail since a Tampa jury acquitted him in December on eight of the 17 federal charges against him, then deadlocked on the rest...
One down, not much of a start but "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."
Let us give thanks for small victories.
May his plane have a pressurization failure at his window seat alone.
Inshallah.
I agree Ronin.
Although I would Have preferred to see this slime ball dirt bag rot in prison, at least this is a good first step. Let the FBI keep rounding them up and get them the hell out of the country.
each time one is deported or killed l think of this song.. "another bites the dust!".. keeping the count going!
The decision to deport this individual underscores the fact that a failure to obtain a conviction does not necessarily mean that the defendant is innocent. Obviously, the government knew that Al-Arian is not innocent. Good riddance. Let's hope he will never be allowed to return. I wonder - will his family be deported along with him? His wife and children have been thoroughly steeped in jihad ideology, and are as undesirable as he, in my opinion.
Well, someone actually has a working brain in government. Now get the rest of them.
How do you hide a Mexican Fox or Coyote? Behind any American Bush! 41, W, Jeb, it doesn’t matter because none of them care or about the border.
Since he needs a new home I think the sunni triangle would be a great place. Dress him in a crusader smock and send him off with a smile.
Gaza is the appropriate place. And Al-Arian will of course need to have his wife and children with him -- their continuing presence in the United States would only guarantee more trouble for long-suffering Infidels, more expensive monitoring of the family, more worries over security and what the little Al-Arians may someday get up to, even if only by infecting unsuspecting Infidels with their views. Now that Hamas is in charge, the full beauty of an Islamiic polity, intent on implementing the Shari'a, can be fully enjoyed by the Al-Arian family. And they will fit right in, among so many others thinking exactly -- but exactly -- as they do, all of them following the Total Regulation of Life, the Complete Explanation of the Universe, that Islam offers them. They will count themselves lucky to be rid of that awful un-Islamic environment in Florida. And one hopes they will fully describe that awfulness to other "Palestinian" Arabs, so that they will not take it into their heads to even try to emigrate to the United States. It's not the country for them. And they are not the immigrants for us -- they are a mortal threat.
Maybe he is being "deported" to Gitmo.
I know he isn't but a man can dream can't he?
Gaza would be more fitting, and much more unpleasant for those who have lived freely in a Western country such as the United States, than any American prison.
Gaza, Hugh, is just a rotten tragedy where spiritually blind people go to finally die. This was said to my mother by a Maronite Christian charity worker who tried to help there for ten years. He was driven out six months ago by the moslems because he wouldn't pay bribes and because he gave medical help to women free of charge. He is the friend who told me about this site and I think he posts here but I suppose that he has to careful.
I never got to Gaza because the Iraelii authorities wouldn't let me but I met lots of people who tried to work there and I think the assessment is probably right.
Oh no. Who's gonna play on the teeter-totter with Ahmed?
un-Islamic environment in Florida
The local CAIR imam has a new show on Channel 21 if you have Time-Warner cable in Orlando. It's a solid hour of taqiyya. Florida is rapidly becoming Dearborn.
I'd really love for Muslims to become solid American citizens, but nothing in the imam's presentation suggests any respect for the founding norms of our nation - just the usual rhetorical necessities to implement the Total System slowly, like warming the frog in a pot.
ANOTHER freakin' failure for the idiots in charge... Janet Reno put away more Muslim terrorists that John Ashcroft, and it looks like Abu Gonzoles isn't going to do much either.
Maybe,
MAYBE!!!
just MAAAAAYBE...
they'll get Moussaoui, since he has all but confessed in his little tantrum-rages during the trial. But again, I say MAYBE.
I look forward to a day when the Saudis DON'T have a puppet in the Whitehouse, when Grover Norquist (R-Married A Muslim, Do The Math) isn't running the party-in-charge. Maybe then we can take fighting terrorism seriously again. Of course by then Iran will have nukes. And I'd be willing to bet that a certain group of cable news and a.m. radio talking heads will have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER with criticizing THAT war president.
Alright, Gary... what was the bet? That I'd pay when Al-Aryan (R-Photo With Bush) actually was put in prison, or deported? Do you remember? Email me. I may not be able to "get back into the swing of things" too quick and forget to check back.
Goddam you Al-Aryan... you make me wish there really was such a thing as hell. But of course he'll be going to his choice of any of 57 Muslim nations, where he'll be praised as a martyr, a holy warrior, a killer of Jews. He'll live a lavish lifestyle usually reserved for clerics. And his family will definitely BE STAYING in America, or perchance relocate to a third-party state like France, Greece, Italy, etc. Maybe Al-Aryan will live in a civilized nation like France, Greece, etc. instead of a Muslim hellhole. But I don't think that he speaks anything besides Arabic and English, hopefully England, Canada, Australia, etc. will tell him to go piss up a rope. That leaves a Muslim or almost-Muslim nation, like Kenya or Uganda. But will the "rumpled academic" find such... ruralness to his liking? I guess we'll see. We will definitely hear the name Al-Aryan again soon.
If only Mossad and the "worldwide Zionist conspiracy" were one-twentieth as pervasive and powerful as idiots like Al-Aryan claim... he'd be put out of his misery as soon as he got off his plane.
KJ
fanorollins@yahoo.com
Here is a column that links our wide open borders with islam...it all dovetails together. I am so tired of gutless people that bend over like reeds in the wind.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dianawest/2006/04/10/193104.html
KJ, just be glad, like I am, that this no good sewer rat is going to be out of this country, and we won't have to pay for his food, clothing, shelter, and koran, as he rots in jail for the next 30 years.
One down, many to go. Welcome back.
DC
Sending him to Gaza is a good idea, but not for the reasons Hugh suggests. Instead, Hamas currently has a monopoly on support in Gaza, and al Arian is affiliated with Islamic Jihad. So send him there, and let him be perceived as a martyr to the Palestinian cause as a result of his deportation. Then he attracts followers amongst Gaza residents for Islamic Jihad (Hugh, how about starting a chapter of Jihadwatch called Infidel Jihad, or Kafir Jihad, just to illustrate the redundancy?), thereby drawing support away from Hamas. Obviously, Hamas won't like it, and they'd either kill him (preventing him from being perceived as a martyr in FL), or they'd expel him to Damascus to join Islamic Jihad there.
Either way, we infidels can't lose.
kj
Kenya and Uganda aren't Muslim countries. Why not restrict his choice of countries to Arab ones? Hugh's choice of Gaza is good enough.
His family should be sent over with him.
When a Muslim is sent to jail then people complain about feeding him, prison dawa and say he should have been deported.When the Muslim is deported those same people complain that he wasn't sent to prison.People really should make up their mind imprisonment or deportation which do you prefer?
BTW - What are the names of the Muslims Janet Reno sent to prison? Was it Janet Reno or just Bill Clinton who refused the Sudan's offer of Osama Bin Laden?
Probably the millenium bombers, as well as the bombers of the first WTC attack. But Clinton was a perfect Dhimmi as well - from manipulating Netanyahu's election defeat, armtwisting Ehud Barak into handing over Jerusalem to Arafat (only thing that saved Israel was Arafat rejecting it), bombing Serbia on behalf of the KLA, starting the normalization of relations with Iran starting with a World cup soccer match, and now, most recently, both he and Carter batting for the Dubai ports deal.
If I was a Dem, I wouldn't crow too loudly about Clinton's role in the Jihad. If anything, his womanizing was something that Mohammed might have been proud of. In fact, one way for Clinton to legitimize his activities would be to recite the Shahada, and then go to the mid east and hit on Queen Noor or Queen Rania for starters, and then join Michael Jackson on the Arab equivalent of Neverland Ranch.
Everyone is being far too optimistic. Unfortunately, knowing what passes for media in Western Europe - and, like the US MSM, their European colleagues are the worst obstacle we face to waking the public up - I think that the following series of events will take place: some gormless and clueless European hack will write up his story so as to make him sound a victim, and then some equally clueless European university will hire him. After ten years, the local police will get wise to him and expel him from wherever he is; and then maybe we will finally see him chased to the Muslim reservation where he belongs. Remember, a lot of European hacks still have not seen through Tariq Ramadan.
OT here is an interesting article on how the people of West Papua are treated by the muslims of Indonesia
http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger37.html
Sheikh Canuck, thanks for the link. Very interesting - in a grim way - and nice to know that the Papuans are giving the Indonesian thugs hell. However, the article is also typical of that strange creature, John Pilger. Notice how he manages to ascribe everything to Western conspiracies, jumping at will from a supposed meeting in Switzerland in the sixties to "carve up the Indonesian economy" to John Howard's hesitant behaviour to his giant neighbour - and using this, not as evidence of the nervous attitude of the leader of a country of twenty-odd million peoples to a neighbour ten times the number, but of cool and contemptous manipulation by a cruel Western puppeteer. In Pilger's view, the millions of Muslim thugs unleashed on East Timor and West Papua are nothing more than puppets manipulated by Howard and his fellow bloated capitalist swine. That is the strange aspect of this man. Pilger has enough instinct for the truth to have done some real service; apart from East Timor, which he mentions, no single other journalist has done as much to expose the horror of Pol Pot's Cambodia. And yet, having done that, he still managed to convince himself that the real evil was in some sort of wicked capitalist conspiracy, and that even Pol Pot somehow fitted in the pattern of American domination of the world. What do you do with such a man? Let him work on, because his genuine investigative skills are useful, or ignore him, because his propaganda stinks?
Spot on Paolo!
See, sometimes you get it really right without even trying!
You happy now with Prodi? No sarc, serious: I would appreciate a few lines if you care...
As for:
"...a lot of European hacks still have not seen through Tariq Ramadan..."
Remember: It was Blair himself who invited him to Britain.
Ramadan is on Blair's payroll.
(and hopefully on his conscience...)
Well, Roxane, I don't have their names, but I'm pretty sure there was at least one Mohammed, one Abdul, one Sayeed, one Yusef. But I'm glad you asked. Here, let me see if this jogs your little GOPer memory.
Remember the first WTC attack? Remember the Muslims that were arrested, tried, and sent to prison? As I recall one of them had Lynne Stewart for an attorney... you DO remember Lynne Stewart, right?
And how about those attacks planned for America during the Y2k celebrations? Remember? There was a plot to bomb Seattle, a plot to bomb LAX, and a plot to blow up 10 American passenger jet plans over the Pacific Ocean.
Ah, yes... it's good to recall a time when our anti-terror efforts weren't "faith-based".
And Roxane? It was neither Clinton nor Reno that turned down Sudan's "offer" of Bin Laden. To put away faith at all in even the premise of such a fantasy shows the depths to which one can sink, when caught up in wishful thinking and the suspension of disbelief. But hey, I understand that it's a integral part of your beliefs and idealogy.
First of all, make me believe that Sudan, a nation ruled by religiously-insane Arab Jihadi Muslims, would turn over ANY religiously-insane Arab Jihadi Muslim to the Great Satan. Make me believe THAT first. Then we can work on the notion that Sudan, one of the poorest nations in the world, would turn over a Saudi BILLIONAIRE that had the financial support of hundreds of other Saudi billionaires. They said Bin Laden spent money in Sudan like it was nothing, that he was a very generous benefactor.
So Roxane, it seems to me that your claim, like most GOPer lies, is just so much fluff. And oddly enough, "your side" always dummies up when someone brings up Reagan's generous funding of Bin Laden and his brothers-in-arms in Afghanistan in the 80s... in fact, Reagan's records on the matter have been SEALED. I wonder why?
As usual, the lies you tell about Clinton aren't as bad at the truth about your beloved annointed ones. Just as the lies told about Israel aren't as bad as the truth about Sudan, Saudi, Syria, Egypt, Morroco, Lebabnon, Turkey, etc.
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Idiot Pride:
Probably the millenium bombers, as well as the bombers of the first WTC attack.
Bingo!
...But Clinton was a perfect Dhimmi as well - from manipulating Netanyahu's election defeat...
LOL... so the Israelis elect whoever Clinton says? Okay. If you can believe that the Sudan "offered to hand over" Bin Laden, I guess you can believe anything.
...armtwisting Ehud Barak into handing over Jerusalem to Arafat (only thing that saved Israel was Arafat rejecting it),
LOL... God knows that Lord Bush hasn't pressured Israel in the least, right? LOL.
... bombing Serbia on behalf of the KLA,
Cause and corelation... cause and corelation.... cause and corelation. Or will accept that Bush bombed and caught Saddam on behalf of Iran and Saudi Arabia?
... starting the normalization of relations with Iran starting with a World cup soccer match,
You mean back when their reactors were turned off?
... and now, most recently, both he and Carter batting for the Dubai ports deal.
I think that you're "forgetting" a few other luminaries battling for the Dubai ports deal... like that guy who thought that the Taliban was a rock band? The guy who has a "ranch" but can't ride a horse? The guy that never misses and opportunity to gush about the greatness of Islam (even on the 9-11 memorial service in the National Cathedral)?
If I was a Dem, I wouldn't crow too loudly about Clinton's role in the Jihad.
And if I were a GOPer, I wouldn't hate Islam.
If anything, his womanizing was something that Mohammed might have been proud of.
Funny that during the Lewinsky Years, while a certain troupe of monkeys were pant-hooting daily about how "we've lost our credibility in the world" I can only recall four nations that criticized Clinton: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Oh what a tangled web we weave.
In fact, one way for Clinton to legitimize his activities would be to recite the Shahada,
... or maybe when Hilary takes office in 2009, he can have her invent a war, destroy our diplomatic efforts all over the world, alienate our allies, convince millions of Muslims to join the jihad for real, kill thousands of American GIs, and maim, blind, disfigure, paralyze, etc. tens of thousands of GIs. Would you then say he's "decisive" and "forceful"? LOL.
... and then go to the mid east and hit on Queen Noor or Queen Rania for starters, and then join Michael Jackson on the Arab equivalent of Neverland Ranch.
That would be your beloved Aunt Condi (R-Closet).
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Again, the lies you tell about Slick Willie aren't as bad as the truth about Bush and Gipper the Walking Nap. Must suck to be you. You're new here, right? Get used to that red bootprint on your fanny.
? It was neither Clinton nor Reno that turned down Sudan's "offer" of Bin
Kj, it was on tape that Clinton himself said they did not take the offer not once but at least twice for BinLaden at the time.
Clinton was too busy making sure his legacy would last, well like a true liberal he put his head in the sand. you might dislike what Bush is doing, but at least he is doing something, and not poll driven like some many politicians! you cant trial these terrorist in a regular court, they need to be tried in a military court and if found guilty, death squard pronto!
kj,
Um... not sure how long you've been around here, but I think it's pretty safe to say that people who try so hard to "blame" the problems presented by Islam and its concept of global jihad on either of the major parties are actually part of the problem.
The global jihad that we're all trying to fight is not the "fault" of what any administration has or has not done. While certainly it will take competent and knowledgeable leaders to begin to finally combat the problem, the blame game does little at all to begin that process – which as we all know, it long overdue.
Jihad has been around for longer than we've even had politic parties in America. It has reared its ugly head during the terms of office held by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Replace the Republicans in leadership positions with Democrats in leadership positions, and jihad will still be the biggest threat to this and many (all) other countries, jus as it was when the Democrats were replaced by the Republicans. It has little to do with which political party is in office; it has everything to do with intelligence, persistence, and a willingness to see the threat of global jihad and the root problem of Islam for what they really are and to speak of them openly and truthfully and without fear of being politically incorrect. Quite frankly, neither party had demonstrated the ability to do that.
Perhaps instead of stamping red boot prints on other people's fannies, those people who seek to continue to divide this country in terms of blaming everyone else for what has gone wrong ought to instead find constructive and productive ways to introduce those with little knowledge about the subject to Islam and the problem that global jihad presents to all of us.
Perhaps it would be best if all the energy that goes into defending one's political party and blaming the opposition's political party were spent instead protecting the lives of all Americans, whatever their choice for a political party.
I hope his family, who are resident in the USA on the primary immigration granted to Sami Al-Arian, be deported as well.
The last thing one wants is for his children to stay on in the USA and pursue their Dad's work, but now with a vengeance.
Welcome back kj.
Folks we may not agree with kj's politics, but he is one of us (anti-jihadist) and he is sharp. Now go get 'em kj.
yer'mami - I spent an hour or more writing a long and detailed response, and then Typekey ate it. I am sorry, but I simply do not have the time to rewrite it. I will simply say this: I said and repeated that Prodi is not the issue, he is a figurehead, and that the issue is the balance of power between the moderate and the crazy elements of the current majority. I do not know how that will pan out. Berlusconi had to go; he was wholly unsuited to governing a country, for reasons to do with character and intelligence, and the opposition coalition needs a more credible leader. I said and repeated all these things and more, and I do not see why you should ask "what I think of Prodi now", as if a few days could alter my view of a political figure I have known for a quarter-century and whom, at any rate, I do not regard as central. It may interest you that I abstained from voting, because I could not in conscience vote for either group. Getting rid of Berlusconi was Problem One. Taming the Communists and other maniacs is Problem Two.
Bon Voyage, Professor al-Arian! Have a rotten trip (my compliments) and an even worse life!!!
May you be greeted by a trillion pigs in the afterlife!!!!
kj,Um... not sure how long you've been around here, but I think it's pretty safe to say that people who try so hard to "blame" the problems presented by Islam and its concept of global jihad on either of the major parties are actually part of the problem.
Kj has actually been around here for a long time. His posts on this thread are a sample of what you can expect from him.A few months ago after an attack on Mel Gibson, kj announced he was leaving,vowing never to return. Unfortunately, he did not keep his promise.
And the bad news it....?
And the bad news is....?
Carolyn2: "Folks we may not agree with kj's politics, but he is one of us (anti-jihadist) and he is sharp."
And quite charming too, apparently.
It is long overdue. Arian should have been deported much sooner!
Well, since he has slammed the Gandhi clan in another thread on D/W (the one about the Dalai Lama waxing eloquent about Islam) i.e. massaging my favorite hobby horse, I've decided to give him a pass for the next 10 occasions that he flames me.
After that, either another massage will be needed, or the gloves are off.
Don't hold your breath, Infidel Pride. People who are smug and condescending when they post tend to be pretty one dimensional about it. They satisfy their egos saying things online that would get their a..es kicked if they said them face to face. Being an equal opportunity abuser and prick doesn't make one any less of either.
I daresay, back in the days when I wore the funny green pajamas and carried a boomstick, we had ways of adjusting the attitudes of people who thought they were smarter than everyone else and were rude about it.
Good decision!!
I think sami needs a big fat juicy sex change opperation before he gets sent off to, preferably, afghanistan or saudi arabia.