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| Document Ties Al-Arian Group To Jihad, Prosecutors Say |
| 2005-06-24 |
| TAMPA - Prosecutors on Thursday showed jurors a document linking an organization founded by Sami Al-Arian to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, pledging unity with another terrorist organization and glorifying an Islamic Jihad attack. ``The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine has declared its total solidarity with our brothers in Hamas and called on all muslims to take all means available to support the detainees and demand their unconditional release, and warn the enemy from taking any further suppressive actions,'' the document says. ``No to surrender of humiliating peace ... Yes to Holy Land from the River to the Sea ... Glory to the martyr, Wounded, Prisoners and Children of the Stones.'' The 1989 document found on a computer taken in 1995 from the offices of the World and Islam Studies Enterprise had the name of the Islamic Committee for Palestine on the bottom. Wish I could get hard drives to last 6 years. The Islamic Committee for Palestine was founded by Al- Arian in 1988. It hosted annual conferences on Palestinian issues and had a stated purpose to unite various organizations and mobilize the Muslim community in America. But federal prosecutors say it was really a front for the Islamic Jihad. The document introduced as evidence Thursday afternoon refers to Nidal Zalloom, an Islamic Jihad member who killed two elderly Israelis and injured three in a knife attack on a Jerusalem street on May 3, 1989. ``The new terror campaign by the enemy against the combative islamic movements has intensified, especially after the bold action undertaken by the Mujahid Nidal Zalloom in the last week in the Holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem,'' the document states. ``In addition, an extensive campaign of repressive measures and wide arrest campaign have taken place against the leaders and members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) including the arrest of their spiritual leader Sheik Ahmad Yasin, in another attempt by the enemy to break the back of the heroic Islamic resistance in Palestine.'' The Zalloom incident was among 14 attacks that attorneys in the case have stipulated were committed by Islamic Jihad members. |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #1 at: http://reports.tbo.com/reports/alarian/ there are images of the accused also USF has finally fired Al Arian based on his indictment |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-06-24 13:06 |