The Washington Post, February 24th, 2003
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY of South Florida declared late in 2001 that it meant to fire tenured computer engineering professor Sami Al-Arian, he became a cause celebre of academic freedom. Mr. Al-Arian had long been suspected of raising money for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group that conducts suicide bombings against Israel. Yet even as the feds disclosed their continuing investigation related to Mr. Al-Arian, many were quick to label the case a post-Sept. 11 witch hunt. They were reacting partly to the university's poor handling of the matter; it initially blamed the disruptive atmospher...
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