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...construction worker from Sebastian, Fla., who notes, "I don't think they needed to use deadly force with the guy. He was getting off the plane." Jorge Borrelli, an Orlando architect who was also on the flight, says he thinks Alpizar may have feared being the victim of a terrorist attack. He remembers hearing Buechner say after the shooting that her husband thought there was a bomb on the plane and felt he had to get off. Says Borrelli: "He didn't have the appearance of being menacing...
...peak of his notoriety, some folks called him, inevitably, an international man of mystery; others, the death merchant. He was the subject of the 1986 best seller Manhunt: the Dramatic Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist, by Peter Maas. The former Marine, 77, stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and was someone to be reckoned with. But Edwin Wilson's roller-coaster ride as a freelance spy flew off the rails in 1982, when he was lured out of Libya in a sting operation conducted by U.S. marshals. He then was convicted in a series of sensational trials...
...double suicide bombing at Beit Lid Junction, Israel, killed 21 Israelis and was one of the bloodiest attacks ever by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (P.I.J.)--which the U.S. soon after designated as a terrorist organization. A few weeks later, according to U.S. court documents, Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian computer-science professor at the University of South Florida (U.S.F.) in Tampa, wrote a letter to an associate in Kuwait bragging that the Beit Lid carnage was "an example of what P.I.J. could do" and soliciting funds for the bombers' families. A year earlier, the records show, al-Arian faxed to Islamic...
That evidence, presented in a 2003 federal indictment, may well be damning stuff in the U.S. court of public opinion. But a Tampa jury has made it joltingly clear to the Bush Administration that praising terrorist acts, raising money for terrorists' widows or making an unaccepted offer to manage a terrorist group's money does not make a man a terrorist in a U.S. court of law. Handing the Justice Department one of its most embarrassing post-9/11 defeats, the jurors last week acquitted al-Arian, 47, on eight counts--including charges that he was Islamic Jihad's North...
Prosecutors said they "stand by the evidence" they presented in court, which they insist showed that al-Arian gave illegal "material support" to a terrorist group. Despite his acquittal, al-Arian remained behind bars last week as prosecutors pondered whether to retry him on the charges the jurors deadlocked on. But even if he emerges from jail, the trial's revelations about his stealth involvement with Islamic Jihad--after he claimed for years that he rejected the group--have all but wrecked his standing as a spokesman for mainstream Palestinian causes...