note:...Newsweek named in last article..........I believe this is to keep the attention off bush and rove with this "terrorist case which is not in the process of chosing jurors............
Bush Scandal Red Alert!
Bush Tied to Terror Suspect Sami al-Arian
From: Democrats.com
George and Laura Bush with Sami Amin Al-Arian during the 2000 campaign in Florida. Al-Arian is charged with 50 counts of terrorism. Al-Arian even went to a White House briefing with Karl Rove.
George & Laura Meet Alleged Terrorist Sami Amin Al-Arian
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Al-Arian, arrested Feb. 20 on a 50-count indictment alleging conspiracy, racketeering and material support for terrorism, had been on paid leave from his $67,500 job since shortly after an inflammatory television interview Sept. 26, 2001. By then, the computer engineering professor had been accused for years of supporting terrorism.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAV3LY9OCD.html**********************************************
FEB. 21, 2003: THE STRANGE CASE OF SAMI AL-ARIAN
The arrest of Sami al-Arian on terrorism charges marks an epoch not only in the War on Terror, but in the history of the Bush administration. But let's rewind:
Here now is where the story gets painful for us Bush Republicans. Not only were the al-Arians not avoided by the Bush White House - they were actively courted. Candidate Bush allowed himself to be photographed with the al-Arian family while campaigning in Florida. Candidate Bush denounced the immigration laws that detained - and ultimately deported - Mazen al-Najjar. In May 2001, Sami al-Arian was invited into the White House complex for a political briefing for Muslim-American leaders. The next month his son, Abdullah, who was then an intern in the office of Congressman David Bonior, joined a delegation of Muslim leaders at a meeting with John DiIulio, head of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. After the group entered the complex, a red flag belatedly popped up over the al-Arian name, and the Secret Service ordered him out of the complex. The entire delegation marched out with young al-Arian - and soon afterward, President Bush personally apologized to the young man and ordered the deputy director of the Secret Service to apologize as well.
(Young al-Arian published a strikingly disingenuous account of this experience in the online edition of Newsweek on - note the date - September 14, 2001. Newsweek - a magazine normally celebrated for its rigorous fact-checking - permitted young al-Arian to claim on its site that he had been "singled out" only because of his "name and physical features." Now in one sense that's true - had Abdullah al-Arian been named Abdullah al-Shmarian, nobody at the Secret Service would have troubled him. But al-Arian and Newsweek cooperated in leaving the reader with a very false impression that he had been the victim of some kind of bigoted anti-Muslim dragnet.)
http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/diary022103.asp
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