Poynter's St. Petersburg Times | Tampa Tribune
Investigative reporter
Michael Fechter is teaming up with
Steven Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Meg Laughlin notes that Fechter, like Emerson, believed that University of South Florida prof
Sami Al-Arian was criminally linked to the terrorist activity of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Israel. "We always had suspicions that Fechter was virtually an agent for Emerson, " says Ahmed Bedier of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Fechter denies that Emerson unduly influenced him. || Related
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