{"article":{"id":84334,"heading":"LA 8 (Palestinians) to be retried under Patriot Act","author":"R. Jeffrey Smith","created":"2003-09-25 04:54:21","modified":"2003-09-29 08:48:34","last_modified":"Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:48:34","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Bush administration has decided to pursue a 16-year-old effort to deport two Palestinian activists who as students distributed magazines and raised funds for a group the government now considers a terrorist organization, despite several court rulings that the deportations are unconstitutional because the men were not involved in terrorist activity.  <br><br>    <br><br>   <br>  <br> The case, which has long had a high profile among Palestinian Americans, could pose a new judicial test of a controversial provision in the Patriot Act, passed in 2001. The provision prohibits supplying material support for organizations the government deems \"terrorist,\" even without evidence of a link to specific terrorist acts.  <br><br> At the time of their initial arrests in 1987, the activists, Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, were allegedly affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist group that has advocated an independent Palestinian state and has been involved in various acts of terrorism.  <br><br> The government alleges that Hamide and Shehadeh helped raise funds for the PFLP in the mid-1980s at California churches, a Scottish Rite temple and an auditorium owned by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and distributed magazines for the group. <br><br>  . . .<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A49517-2003Sep22.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The Bush administration has decided to pursue a 16-year-old effort to deport two Palestinian activists who as students distributed magazines and raised funds for a group the government now considers a terrorist organization, despite several court rulings that the deportations are unconstitutional because the men were not involved in terrorist activity. \r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/09\/84334.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}