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TAMPA, Fla., May 1 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Tampa imposed the maximum sentence Monday on a former University of South Florida professor who admitted supporting Islamic Jihad.
Sami Al-Arian, who has lived in the United States for 30 years, will be deported once he completes his sentence, The New York Times reported.
In December, a jury acquitted Al-Arian of eight of 17 charges against him, failing to agree on the others. The result in what had been billed as a major terrorism trial was an embarrassment to the Bush administration.
Al-Arian reached a plea agreement in which he admitted supporting Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian group classified by the Justice Department as a terrorist organization.
Judge James Moody criticized Al-Arian and sentenced him to four years and nine months. Because he gets credit for the time he has been in prison, he will be deported in 19 months.
Al-Arian was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents.
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