Terrorism prosecutions, etc.:

In this post I would like to provide some links for those interested in catching up on some of the current events in the war on terrorism.

Prosecutions:
Muslim doctor sentenced to prison for charity fraud
Associated Press
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A Muslim doctor who ran an unregistered charity was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison for cheating donors and illegally sending some of the money to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions. Dr. Rafil Dhafir's Syracuse-based charity Help the Needy allegedly raised close to $5 million between 1995 and 2002.

Fired professor presents no defense in terrorism-support trial
Associated Press
After hearing from government witnesses for nearly five months, an attorney for a fired college professor charged with aiding Palestinian terrorists rested his case Thursday without calling a single witness.

After summoning more than 70 witnesses, federal prosecutors rested their case earlier Thursday morning against Sami Al-Arian and three other defendants accused of raising money and supporting the murderous mission of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad or PIJ.

Al-Arian's attorney, William Moffitt, stunned most in the courtroom when he told U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr. that he also would rest. Attorneys for Al-Arian's three co-defendants began presenting their cases, which could take weeks more.

For more on the case against former professor Sami al-Arian, please see here, here, here, and here.

Va. Terror Suspect's Torture Story Improbable, Judge Says
Washington Post
A federal judge said yesterday that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali's contention that his Saudi jailers whipped his back so hard that it was bloody and throbbing seemed implausible because "all of the evidence" indicates the American student was not in pain a few days later.

In a 113-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee explained why he declined Monday to throw out statements Abu Ali made that implicated him in a plot to kill President Bush. The Falls Church man is charged with multiple terrorism counts, and his attorneys had said his statements were coerced.

Proof Sufficient to Convict Lynne Stewart, Judge Finds
New York Law Journal
Defense attorney Lynne Stewart's bid for a judgment of acquittal on charges she provided material support to a terrorist conspiracy by acting as a willing conduit for an imprisoned terrorist has been rejected by Southern District of New York Judge John Koeltl.

Setting the stage for Stewart to be sentenced in December, Koeltl rejected several arguments made by her legal team in pursuit of a judgment of acquittal or a new trial.

Stewart was convicted in February of providing and concealing, and conspiring to provide and conceal, material support to be used in preparation for and in carrying out a separate conspiracy by others, including her co-defendant Ahmed Abdel Sattar, to murder people in a foreign country.

She was also convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States for obstructing the attempts of the Department of Justice to impose special administrative measures on her client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.