AND YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD SOME BAD PROFS IN COLLEGE...: It really says something about the state of academics in America today that a semi-respected university can hire the leader of a terrorist cell and make him a tenured professor. But that's what happened with Sami Al-Arian and the University of South Florida; thankfully, Al-Arian and several other men were indicted Friday on 50 counts of conspiracy to support terrorism, in addition to interstate extortion, perjury, obstruction of justice and immigration fraud. Al-Arian, under the guise of teaching computer science at USF and leading a "peaceful" pro-Palestinian group, was actually the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's leading supporter in the United States.
Al-Arian has claimed that his frequent proclamations of "Death to Israel" have nothing to do with killing Jews, just as rapper Ice-T claimed a decade ago that his song "Cop Killer" had nothing to do with killing cops. The indictment ties the professor to numerous attacks in Israel that led to over 100 killing, including the bus-bombing death in 1995 of West Orange, New Jersey native and Brandeis University student Alisa Flatow.
The men charged all face life imprisonment if convicted.