Section: <http://www.nysun.com/national/> National > Printer-Friendly Version Al-Arian Judge Seeks Record Review By <http://www.nysun.com/authors/Joseph+Goldstein> JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | July 29, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/national/al-arian-judge-seeks-record-review/82778/> http://www.nysun.com/national/al-arian-judge-seeks-record-review/82778/ A federal judge in Virginia has indicated that she wants to review the grand jury record that led to criminal contempt charges of a Palestinian Arab activist and former college professor, <http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Sami+Al-Arian> Sami Al-Arian. The order by Judge Leonie Brinkema of U.S. District Court in <http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Alexandria+(Virginia)> Alexandria, Va., may be nothing more than a signal that she is reading up on the facts of the case before Al-Arian's trial, which is set to begin in two weeks. Or it could be a sign that she is giving considerable weight to Al-Arian's argument that he is being singled out for prosecution because prosecutors are sore that they failed to convict him of terrorism-related charges at a trial in Florida in 2005. In an order issued recently, Judge Brinkema instructed federal prosecutors to provide to her, in addition to relevant grand jury transcripts, a list of any other similar criminal contempt cases brought by prosecutors in her district. The current contempt charges faced by Al-Arian, who previously has pleaded guilty to assisting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, relate to his refusal to testify before two grand juries investigating a web of nonprofit Muslim groups connected to a Herndon, Va.-based think tank, the International Institute for Islamic Thought. . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=68018/stime=1217381337/nc1=3848621/nc2=3848643/nc3=4763759> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
