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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (711819)	11/8/2005 1:36:15 PM
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'Professor by day and terrorist by night' (JIHAD IN AMERICA ALERT) CNN.Com - Law Center ^ \| Tuesday, November 8, 2005\| TAMPA, Florida (AP) sptimes.com Sami Al-Arian Prosecutor charges professor was terror 'crime boss' A fired college professor acted as a "crime boss" for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a murderous gang that operated like the Mafia, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday. Although Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants are not charged with killing anyone, they conspired to bring about attacks and are just as guilty under the law as the suicide bombers who carried them out, prosecutor Cherie Krigsman said in closing arguments. "The men of the PIJ you got to know in this case, they didn't strap bombs to their body," she said. "They leave that to somebody else." Al-Arian, 47, and his co-defendants are accused of using Palestinian charities and educational entities as fundraising fronts for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad to help bombings that killed hundreds. The men deny they supported violence and say they are being persecuted for views that are unpopular in the United States. Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida computer engineering teacher who was fired after he was indicted, "was a professor by day and a terrorist by night," Krigsman said. Prosecutors built their case around hundreds of pages of transcripts of wiretapped phone calls and faxes intercepted by the FBI from the mid-1990s to about 2003, including discussions about the direction and financing of the PIJ. The participants at times appear to celebrate suicide attacks that killed Israelis and speak glowingly of the Palestinian "martyrs" who carried them out. (Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

To: Geoff Altman who wrote (711819)	11/8/2005 1:42:37 PM
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Chirac Attacked Over Handling of Crisis(Too Harsh) AP ^ \| 11/08/05 \| JAMEY KEATEN Tuesday November 8, 2005 PARIS (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac's political rivals criticized his decision Tuesday to declare a state of emergency as ill-suited to quelling rioting. Others faulted Chirac for not taking a more prominent public role in managing the crisis. ``It's not enough to announce a curfew. There have to be security forces on the ground who can enforce it,'' said former Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. Speaking on France-Inter radio, Fabius called curfews ``repressive.'' He and others on the political left said the government had not offered enough support to troubled suburbs and called for new social support and jobs programs. Communist Party leader Marie-George Buffet warned that curfews could fan unrest by enflaming the rioters, adding that the government was ``incapable of stopping these youths.'' ``I do not see how you can enforce the curfew,'' she told France-Info radio. The leader of the center-right UDF party, Francois Bayrou, said the curfew was largely ``symbolic'' and of ``shock'' value, and criticized Chirac for distancing himself during the unrest. Bayrou told RTL radio; ``there needs to be a little distance - but the absence of the president is remarkable.'' Chirac was keeping to his official schedule, hosting Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga on Monday and lunching Tuesday with Prince Albert II of Monaco. The president's first public comments on the rioting came Sunday - 10 days after it began. Two leading police unions, in a joint statement, said they welcomed Chirac's emergency decree, saying it would ``give extra measures to police to ensure the law is respected.'' The head of France's largest teacher's union, Gerard Aschieri, attacked the declaration, saying it could come across as a ``message of war'' to youths across France. ``It's a very bad measure,'' he said. ``Symbolically, it's very serious to reactivate a law from the colonial era ... How will our colleagues who work in the suburbs be able to work with youths subject to this curfew?''