Exclusive Interview: Sami Al-Arian, Professor Who Defeated Controversial Terrorism Charges, is Deported from U.S.

In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was a professor at the University of South Florida, a legal resident of the U.S. since 1975,and one of the most prominent Palestinian civil rights activists in the U.S. That year, the course of his life wasaltered irrevocably when he was indicted on highly controversial terrorism charges by then Attorney General John Ashcroft.These charges commenced a decade-long campaignof government persecution in which Al-Arian was systematically denied his freedom and saw his person...