| This trial is one of the critical junctures in the Global War on Terror, and particularly America's ability to roust out the terrorists among us. Sami is a dirty If we can convict him, we deny our enemies aid and comfort. Our academies are rotten to the core with paid apologists for militant Islam. Al-Arian took his mandate to the next level. We cannot let him walk. |
Defense attorneys are bracing for prosecutors to kick off their case with a torrent of gory photographs, videos, and live testimony about Palestinian Islamic Jihad attacks that killed more than 100 people in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, including five Americans. "They are going to spend the first couple of weeks trying to shock this jury. It's going to be shock and awe," said Stephen Crawford, a lawyer for Mr. Hammoudeh, a former University of South Florida graduate student who was born in the West Bank. In preparation for the trial, prosecutors have reportedly flown in from Israel dozens of victims of the terror group's violence. "It's going to be bloody. It's going to be horrible. It's going to scare the hell out of this jury," Mr. Crawford said. Among the more dramatic images likely to be shown to the jury is a prosecution-arranged video shot in the Florida Everglades that depicts the reenactment of two suicide bombings of passenger buses carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.