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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: June 7, 2005 |
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The trial of a former Florida professor suspected of aiding the Islamic Jihad terrorist group to plan deadly anti-Israeli attacks began on Monday, as Israeli officials and terror victims prepare to take the witness stand with testimonies of Palestinian suicide bombings.
Sami al-Arian, 47, was arrested along with three colleagues in February 2003 and is being tried in a court in Tampa, Florida despite objections by his lawyers, who asked proceedings be held elsewhere after claiming press coverage of the trial by area reporters would be biased and affect the jury.
The former computer science lecturer at the University of South Florida and Hatem Naji Fariz, 32, Sameeh Hammoudeh, 44, and Ghasan Zayed Ballut, 43, are suspected of being senior leaders of Islamic Jihad, which has planned and carried out attacks that have killed over 100 Israelis, as well as two Americans, over more than 15 years.
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Terror trial begins in Florida
- (Ynetnews)
06.7.2005
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