Document Ties Al-Arian Group To Jihad, Prosecutors Say By ELAINE SILVESTRINI [EMAIL PROTECTED] TAMPA - Prosecutors on Thursday showed jurors a document linking an organization founded by Sami Al-Arian to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, pledging unity with another terrorist organization and glorifying an Islamic Jihad attack. ``The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine has declared its total solidarity with our brothers in Hamas and called on all muslims to take all means available to support the detainees and demand their unconditional release, and warn the enemy from taking any further suppressive actions,'' the document says. ``No to surrender of humiliating peace ... Yes to Holy Land from the River to the Sea ... Glory to the martyr, Wounded, Prisoners and Children of the Stones.'' The 1989 document found on a computer taken in 1995 from the offices of the World and Islam Studies Enterprise had the name of the Islamic Committee for Palestine on the bottom. The Islamic Committee for Palestine was founded by Al- Arian in 1988. It hosted annual conferences on Palestinian issues and had a stated purpose to unite various organizations and mobilize the Muslim community in America. But federal prosecutors say it was really a front for the Islamic Jihad. The document introduced as evidence Thursday afternoon refers to Nidal Zalloom, an Islamic Jihad member who killed two elderly Israelis and injured three in a knife attack on a Jerusalem street on May 3, 1989. ``The new terror campaign by the enemy against the combative islamic movements has intensified, especially after the bold action undertaken by the Mujahid Nidal Zalloom in the last week in the Holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem,'' the document states. ``In addition, an extensive campaign of repressive measures and wide arrest campaign have taken place against the leaders and members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) including the arrest of their spiritual leader Sheik Ahmad Yasin, in another attempt by the enemy to break the back of the heroic Islamic resistance in Palestine.'' The Zalloom incident was among 14 attacks that attorneys in the case have stipulated were committed by Islamic Jihad members. The document was introduced into evidence through the testimony of Margaret Fox, a computer evidence examiner for the FBI. Under questioning by Al-Arian attorney Linda Moreno, Fox said there was no way to tell who entered any particular document into the computer at WISE. Al-Arian is on trial, along with Sameeh Hammoudeh, Hatim Naji Fariz and Ghassan Zayed Ballut, on charges they helped organize and finance the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Also on Thursday, Charles Wilmore, a forensics electronics examiner for the FBI, testified about telephone numbers found on an electronic organizer seized from Fariz's home when he was arrested in February 2003. Among telephone numbers in the organizer were those of co-defendants Abd Al Aziz Awda and Bashir Nafi, who are both overseas and not on trial. Awda is alleged by prosecutors to be the spiritual adviser to and one of the founders of the Islamic Jihad. His home and office telephone numbers are given in the organizer. Nafi also is alleged to have been a member of the terrorist organizations governing council. Another entry in the organizer was for Naim Nasser Bulbol, who lives in Rafah on the Gaza Strip. Bulbol was described by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. According to prosecution court papers, Bulbol was the imam of the Al-Qassam mosque in Chicago in the early 1990s, ``an entity we believe to be a component of the PIJ enterprise.'' But according to defense pleadings, Bulbol denies involvement with the group and is a longtime friend and religious adviser for Fariz. Testimony in the case is scheduled to resume Monday. 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