| The fate of former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian and three other men accused of running an American cell for a Palestinian terrorist group should be in jurors' hands this afternoon. U.S. District Judge James Moody was about a fourth of the way through reading the nearly 100-page jury instructions when the trial broke for lunch Monday. Al-Arian, Ghassan Ballut, Hatim Fariz and Sameeh Hammoudeh are charged with four conspiracy counts alleging racketeering, conspiring to commit murder abroad and to provide material support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They could face life in prison if convicted. |