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(Arkansas) Student charged with planning Jihad
via JihadWatchA Palestinian-American student accused of planning to engage in terrorist activities waived his right to a court hearing. Arwah Jaber of Fayetteville, Ark., is charged with planning to travel to the West Bank to engage in jihad against Israel. His attorney announced the waiver Tuesday. Explaining to a professor why he couldn't graduate on time, Jaber wrote, "I decided to take an honorable job in Palestine with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Organization to pursue a more noble cause freedom, justice and peace for the Palestinians and to fight the Israeli terrorism." Jaber was born in the West Bank town of Yamoun and attended Pittsburg State University in Kansas and Georgetown University before enrolling in doctoral studies at the University of Arkansas. If convicted of offering support to a foreign terrorist organization, he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and fined up to $250,000. Posted by: ed 2005-07-02 |
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