Sami al-Arian

Reader comment on item: More Converts to Terrorism

Submitted by Anonymous (United States), Dec 11, 2005 at 11:48

I know that this is probably not the right place to post this but I was wondering what Dr Pipes' opinion of the whole Sami al-Arian case was. I've been looking for articles/blogs about it on his website and can not find anything about the recent accquital

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Daniel Pipes replies:

I am baffled and dismayed by it. Large and complex terror trials should probably be taken out of the hands of juries, just as large and complex anti-trust trials are.

DP