Mark Sman
04-14-2006, 06:47 PM
By ELAINE SILVESTRINI
esilvestrini@tampatrib.com
TAMPA - Sami Al-Arian has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to provide support to a terrorist organization under a deal with the government in which Al-Arian will be deported and the rest of the charges he faces will be dropped, according to an attorney involved in the negotiations.
“My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon,” said attorney William Moffitt, who represented Al-Arian until a judge allowed him to withdraw from the case last month. Moffitt, who spoke in a telephone interview from a hospital in Washington, D.C., said the government conceded in the agreement that there were no acts of violence by Al-Arian.
Steve Cole, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, refused to discuss the case. “My comment is I have no comment on the Sami Al-Arian case, period,” he said.
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esilvestrini@tampatrib.com
TAMPA - Sami Al-Arian has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to provide support to a terrorist organization under a deal with the government in which Al-Arian will be deported and the rest of the charges he faces will be dropped, according to an attorney involved in the negotiations.
“My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon,” said attorney William Moffitt, who represented Al-Arian until a judge allowed him to withdraw from the case last month. Moffitt, who spoke in a telephone interview from a hospital in Washington, D.C., said the government conceded in the agreement that there were no acts of violence by Al-Arian.
Steve Cole, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, refused to discuss the case. “My comment is I have no comment on the Sami Al-Arian case, period,” he said.
http://tboblogs.com/index.php/newswire/comments/al_arian_to_be_deported/