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To: Thomas M. who wrote (10663)	1/3/2002 4:56:00 PM
From: Gabriel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

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To: Thomas M. who wrote (10663)	1/3/2002 6:46:18 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Al-Arian founded the World and Islam Studies Enterprises, a now-defunct think tank that was headquartered at the university until the FBI raided it in 1995 and froze its assets. The think tank and a related Palestinian charity were accused by the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service of being a fund-raising front for terrorists. The charity held conferences that drew people later identified as terrorists, including Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Muslim cleric convicted of plotting to bomb five New York landmarks. A former manager of the charity, Tarik Hamdi, was linked to Osama bin Laden's organization during the trial of four men convicted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa. A former head of the think tank, Ramadan Abdulah Shallah, left in 1995 and resurfaced as the head of a terrorist organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al-Arian said he only knew the men as academics, and that their later links to terrorism "shocked" him. fyi.cnn.com PS This spells an end of anyone like that would be ever "shocked" again, or even admitted to this country...