Our troops and their generals have to contend with our president and many in Congress who have deliberately diverted billions of dollars from the defense budget. Critical funds for our defense have been siphoned off for President Obama's government stimulus packages, bailout programs and many pork-barrel projects. ...more

November 4, 2009

Youssef Megahed is not charged with terrorism. But whether the Egyptian citizen was a potential terrorist or just an innocent college student has been a central question since his arrest in South Carolina in 2007, when deputies said he and Ahmed Mohamed had pipe bombs in the trunk of their car. ...more

March 16, 2009

The Justice Department may have hoodwinked former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian into thinking his plea bargain on terrorism charges would protect him from further prosecutions, a federal judge said Monday. ...more

March 10, 2009

The Justice Department may have hoodwinked former USF professor Sami Al-Arian in into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from prosecutions, a federal judge said. ...more

March 9, 2009

Federal prosecutors have defied a judge's order to turn over evidence of their internal deliberations in coming to a plea agreement with a former professor once accused of being a top Palestinian terrorist. ...more

March 5, 2009

Israeli ground forces made their deepest foray yet today into Gaza's most populated area, with tanks rolling into residential neighborhoods and infantry fighting urban warfare in streets and buildings with Hamas militants who kept up their rocketing of southern Israel. ...more

January 11, 2009

Palestinian militants sent a deadly barrage of missiles flying deep into Israel on Monday, demonstrating that Hamas still had firepower three days into Israel's punishing air offensive in Gaza. ...more

December 29, 2008

The criminal contempt case against Sami Al-Arian may collapse because of the actions of the federal prosecutor who brought the charges in Virginia, two law professors say. ...more

December 21, 2008

Local supporters of a former University of South Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist hailed his release from a federal lockup in Virginia on Tuesday as long overdue. ...more

September 3, 2008

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist has been released for the first time in more than five years. ...more

September 2, 2008