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Dr. Sami Al-Arian: Affidavits Filed With the Court Show Government Seeks
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</a><font size=3>In the last hearing, Prosecutor Gordon Kromberg
indicated that Dr. Al-Arian was being charged with his refusal to answer
questions from his Florida trial not questions related to the IIIT
investigation. Indeed, as these affidavits established, Dr. Al-Arian
voluntarily answered every question on IIIT and addressed every documents
in the IIIT investigation. He then submitted a second affidavit answering
questions beyond IIIT. Both statements were made under oath and Dr.
Al-Arian repeatedly offered to take a polygraph examination to prove that
he was not withholding information. We have decided to release the
affidavits publicly after they were filed this week in court.<br><br>
The defense has argued in court that the IIIT grand jury is a ruse to
revisit the Florida trial, which was a major loss from the Justice
Department and closed by the 2006 plea agreement. In the bail hearing,
Mr. Kromberg admitted that the questions that Dr. Al-Arian did not answer
concerned the PIJ and the issues raised by Judge Moody at the Tampa
trial. Kromberg stated:<br><br>
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<dd>So when Mr. Turley says that he has agreed to answer all these
questions, yes, except for the ones about the terrorist organization that
Judge Moody said that he was a leader in and that we want to know where
the money came from. Except for that, he’s been willing to tell us some
things, but he would not answer those questions repeatedly, and he
refused to meet in person to talk about those questions.<br><br>
</dl>Hearing Trans. at 21. As these affidavits show, Dr. Al-Arian
answered every question regarding IIIT and maintained that he knew of no
criminal act by that organization or its officers. <br><br>
<a href="http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/alarianltr_6_16_08.pdf">
Al-Arian letter</a><br>
<a href="http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/alarianaffidavit.pdf">
First Al-Arian Affidavit</a><br>
<a href="http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/affidavit-al-arian.pdf">
Second Al-Arian Affidavit</a><br><br>
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