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Denial of Due Process to Muslims Disgraces Us All
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20 Jeff Breinholt, "Terrorist Financing,"? U.S. Attorney Bulletin, July 2003, Volume 51, number 4 (hereafter Breinholt); http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usab5104.pdf.
21 To one count of racketeering conspiracy:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2003/pr021003_01.pdf
22 Al-Arian's involvement with charity organizations was prior to 1992. Listen to Amy Goodman's interview of Al-Arian from prison. Democracy Now, February 2007: http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl
23 Dhafir's case went to court in October 2004; Al-Arian's case went to court in July 2005.
24 All other HTN defendants accepted plea bargains for the same reason. A video interview with Ayman Jarwan's lawyer, Jim McGraw, is available (15 minutes in two parts): PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i123mRoBtEo ?PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJIJTf5mak
(Hereafter, McGraw Video.)
25 A statement issued after the plea agreement was made stated, "The plea agreement entered into today is an acknowledgment by the government that neither Mr. Arnaout nor BIF ever provided any support to al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, or any other terrorist organization. The agreement further demonstrates that Mr. Arnaout and BIF never supported any activity that was contrary to the interests of the United States."? Statement of Enaam Arnaout: http://islam.about.com/library/weekly/aa021103b.htm
26 For a description of the arrest see Powell, Washington Post.
27 HTN's lawyer Scott Porter offered a deal whereby all of HTN's assets would go to buy wheelchairs (the vendor offered two for one price) for handicapped Iraqis. The prosecution blocked this because Dhafir would not enter a guilty plea. The money was dispersed to other charities unrelated to the donors' intentions after Dhafir was sentenced. See http://www.dhafirtrial.net/2005/12/06/please-write-to-judge-mordue/#more-218
28 Naylor, Purses, p. 229.
29 Powell, Washington Post.
30 http://www.iananet.org/
31 Al-Hassayen's defense lawyer, David Nevin, said he asked a pool of about 150 potential jurors to raise their hands if they had ever known a Muslim. Only about four or five raised their hands and they were all vetoed as jurors by the prosecution. Nevin compared the trial that followed to the "Far Side"? cartoon in which a dog faces a jury of cats. From Amy Waldman's "Prophetic Justice:"? Atlantic Monthly, October Issue: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200610/waldman-islam/3 (hereafter Waldman, Prophetic).
32 Naylor, Purses, p.333. Here Naylor also contrasts treatment of Muslim males with a case involving a non-Muslim male.
33 Listen to a February 2005 interview of Professor Sami Al-Arian by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl Al-Arian spoke by telephone from prison.
34 Peter Erlinder, "The Ordeal of Dr. Sami Al-Arian: Despite Acquittal on Terrorism Charges, No Prospect of Release for Dr. Al-Arian,"? Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, April 2007: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/April_2007/0704024.html
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