(AP/Los Angeles Times) Mazen Al-Najjar, the brother-in-law of former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, was indicted Tuesday in the terrorism financing case involving Islamic Jihad, responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people in terrorist attacks in Israel. Al-Najjar, a Palestinian, was deported from the U.S. in August 2002 and is believed to be in Lebanon. He was named as an unindicted co-conspirator when Al-Arian and eight others were indicted in 2003. Prosecutors allege the men used an Islamic charity and academic think tank at the university as fund-raising covers for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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