Al-Arian issue looms for Castor

[Freddie Stubbs]

As the primary nears, Senate opponents are asking: When she was USF president, why didn't Betty Castor fire suspected terrorist supporter Sami Al-Arian?

By ANITA KUMAR, Times Staff Writer
Published July 11, 2004



TAMPA - Over Sunday brunch of bagels and egg salad, an almost exclusively Jewish crowd at a Bayshore Boulevard condo peppered Betty Castor with questions about why she didn't fire Sami Al-Arian from the University of South Florida.

Castor reminded them what she did as USF president:

She suspended him. She launched an investigation. She asked the federal government for help.

It's the same message Castor has taken on the road in recent weeks as she campaigns for the U.S. Senate, defending decisions she made nearly a decade ago when the computer science professor was being investigated for raising money for terrorists.

more: http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/11/State/Al_Arian_issue_looms_.shtml

[bluedog]

1. she should use this............georgie boy tied to Al-Arian

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.



http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00207.htm

[JohnLocke]

2. Kick!