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A Triumph of U.S. Political Will

(Jerusalem Post) Caroline B. Glick - The indictment and arrest of University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian by the FBI last week was a watershed event in the U.S. war on terrorism. This was so not because Arian was the CEO of the Islamic Jihad, nor because by arresting Arian, the U.S. has shown that it will apply the full weight of its laws against terrorists, whether their targets are Israeli or American, nor because it brought to bear the new anti-terror law enforcement powers granted to police and intelligence arms of the U.S. government by the 2002 Patriot Act. Rather, Arian's arrest was a watershed because of the political will that stood behind the decision to move forward in the case. Since terror expert Steven Emerson produced the PBS documentary "Jihad in America" in 1994, the fact that Arian was the head of the Islamic Jihad in America was the worst-kept secret in the world.
2003-02-28 00:00:00
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