Legal action against terror
September 6, 2005 20:33 by BackSpin Editor
At the trial of Professor Sami Al-Arian (pictured), an FBI agent testified that a significant amount of money ostensibly collected for needy Palestinians was actually pocketed by Islamic Jihad. The Tampa Tribune explains:
FBI agent Michael Wysocki, a certified public accountant, said he took lists of needy children whom the Muslim Woman Society claimed to support during the early 1990s, then tried to find bank records to prove payments actually were sent abroad.
Although some payments matched up, the vast majority did not.
The Muslim Woman Society was part of the Islamic Concern Project, a charity created by former University of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian. Prosecutors say Al-Arian used the charity, also known as the Islamic Committee for Palestine, as a front for the Islamic Jihad.
In other legal action, the NY Times reports that Palestinian legislator Husam Khader pleaded guilty to helping finance Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror. Khader is a member of Fatah.
Libraryguy
9:41 pm
Sep 06, 2005
Shocking, simply shocking. I attended USF for my graduate degree and was appalled when the president stuck up for this weasely traitor and terror-abider.
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Joe
8:47 am
Sep 07, 2005
When terror attacks agains Israel were ignored by the West, when the defenders were equated to terrorists, when terrorists against Israel became ‘freedom fighters’ when blood libels became ‘legitimate criticism’, it is only natural that the initiators and idiologists of terror are now respectful members of many universities. The only reason it became a problem is that the US aouthorities realized that terror can very quickly change it’s goals and victims. While the West ignored the terror against Israel it grew to global uncontrollable monster whose primery target is now the USA.
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Robert
7:44 pm
Sep 08, 2005
How true. The recent statements by Tony Blair and Charles Clark that espousal and encouragement of terror are as reprehensible as violent actions is commendable but toolittle too late. The genie is out of the bottle. And worse still in many people’s eyes terrorism in Israel is in a different category.
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