Judge Moody's Statement to Sami Al-Arian
After cutting a deal and pleading guilty to assisting members of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami Al-Arian was sentenced to a maximum 57 months in prison. Federal judge James Moody had strong words for Al-Arian:
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And yet, still in the face of your own words, you continue to lie to your friends and supporters, claiming to abhor violence and to seek only aid for widows and orphans. Your only connection to widows and orphans is that you create them, even among the Palestinians; and you create them, not by sending your children to blow themselves out of existence. No. You exhort others to send their children... You are indeed a master manipulator. |
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/01/State/Judge_Moody__You_are_.shtml
Some of the words Judge Moody refers to are from a letter written by Al-Arian after Palestinian Islamic Jihad suicide bombers killed 18 people in Israel.
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The letter solicits funding for “the jihad effort in Palestine.” Al-Arian, according to an FBI translation of the Arabic letter, praised the terrorist attack, writing, “The latest operation carried out by the two mujahidin (warriors), who were martyred for the sake of God, is the best evidence of what the believing few can do in the face of Arab and Islamic collapse before the Zionist enemy and of the still-burning firebrand of faith, steadfastness and challenge.” |
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