Terror Trial Opens for Ex-Fla. Professor
Florida Prosecutor Says Ex-Professor Was Fundraising Powerhouse for Pro-Palestinian Terror Cell
A former professor at a Florida university was a fundraising powerhouse in a pro-Palestinian terror cell blamed for scores of suicide attacks in Israel, a prosecutor said Monday as the man's trial began.
Sami Al-Arian was at one time "the most powerful man in the world" in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, federal prosecutor Walter E. Furr III told jurors in his opening statement.
Furr described how the 47-year-old Al-Arian and three co-defendants were allegedly involved in soliciting financial support for families of suicide bombers, getting money to PIJ headquarters in Syria and spreading word that the PIJ was responsible for attacks.
Sami Al-Arian was at one time "the most powerful man in the world" in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, federal prosecutor Walter E. Furr III told jurors in his opening statement.
Furr described how the 47-year-old Al-Arian and three co-defendants were allegedly involved in soliciting financial support for families of suicide bombers, getting money to PIJ headquarters in Syria and spreading word that the PIJ was responsible for attacks.
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