The Justice Department may have hoodwinked former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian into thinking his plea bargain on terrorism charges would protect him from further prosecutions, a federal judge said Monday. ...more

March 10, 2009

The Justice Department may have hoodwinked former USF professor Sami Al-Arian in into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from prosecutions, a federal judge said. ...more

March 9, 2009

Federal prosecutors have defied a judge's order to turn over evidence of their internal deliberations in coming to a plea agreement with a former professor once accused of being a top Palestinian terrorist. ...more

March 5, 2009

A judge is allowing prosecutors to continue with a criminal contempt case against a man once accused by the U.S. government of being a top Palestinian terrorist. ...more

January 16, 2009

Homeless In Library Recently I decided to go to the downtown branch of the Hillsborough County Public Library. To my surprise I found it has become a homeless shelter. Nearly everyone in the library had the typical homeless backpacks. The majority of these people were occupying the library's computers. Walking around I found that these individuals were not on job search sites but were watching movies, playing games and viewing other meaningless sites. Is this Tampa's way of dealing with the homeless problem, to keep them entertained at taxpayer expense? ...more

December 29, 2008

The criminal contempt case against Sami Al-Arian may collapse because of the actions of the federal prosecutor who brought the charges in Virginia, two law professors say. ...more

December 21, 2008

TAMPA – Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian are asking a federal judge in Virginia to release the former University of South Florida professor on bail while he awaits trial on charges of criminal contempt. Al-Arian has completed his federal sentence for helping a terrorist group, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but is still behind bars because he refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Islamic charities in Virginia. ...more

July 9, 2008

Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday on two charges of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in Virginia. ...more

July 1, 2008

Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned this afternoon on two charges of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in Virginia. ...more

June 30, 2008

A former Tampa professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group was charged Thursday with refusing to testify before a grand jury in a related investigation. ...more

June 27, 2008