The Pentagon has serious problems balancing its books, staying on budget for major projects and keeping track of its inventories. The General Accountability Office has identified $295 billion in cost overruns on Pentagon programs. A big part of the problem is former military leaders who move to lucrative private-sector jobs with defense contractors—more than 2,400 of them in 2006 alone.
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Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida computer science professor had been an active leader in the U.S. for Palestinian Islamic Jihad an officially designated foreign terrorist organization and had raised funds for it here in the US. He was originally sentenced on a guilty plea verdict in a long trial in the Tampa Federal District Court to 57 months and deportation, thereafter after serving his sentence. Al Arian had lost two U.S. Appeals court bids to remain silent on the new investigation that lead to his indictment on Wednesday by the Virginia Federal court.
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