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December 7, 2005
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Jurors acquitted a Florida professor on eight charges that he helped lead Islamic Jihad, and deadlocked on another nine. Sami Al-Arian, formerly a computer engineering professor at the University of South Florida, ended his five-month trial on Tuesday crying tears of joy. Jurors acquitted him of the most serious charge of conspiring to maim and murder people overseas, and deadlocked on charges that he aided terrorists. Al-Arian’s wife, Nahla, said she was “ecstatic.”

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