After being in jail for 9 months without trial:Al-Jailani faces renewed accusations [Archives:2003/659/Front Page]

By News Services
A Yemeni living in the USA, Ashraf Al-Jailani, 39, is scheduled to go before an immigration judge in the US this week to face renewed FBI accusations that he poses a threat to the public.
Despite the fact that Al-Jailani has been kept in prison for nine months, and denies he is linked to al-Qaida, he is expected to continue to be prisoner at the Berks County jail in Pennsylvania.
He is held without enough evidence to convict him, according to immigration Judge Walt Durling.
“They are playing such a dirty game, throwing dirt at him and trying anything to make it stick,” said Farhad Sethna, the lawyer representing Al-Jailani. “They don't charge him, they don't interview him, and he's not even a material witness in any of their other cases.”
Meanwhile, a Portage County juvenile court hearing to decide placement of his three children ) who have been in foster care since June 3 when their mother was hospitalized for depression ) is scheduled for Aug. 26 in Ravenna.
The children ) ages 3, 4 and 6 ) are living with a married couple in Portage County and attending day care.
This comes in a time Yemenis in exile openly declare that they are indeed facing more difficulties in the USA than any other time in the past.
“Whenever I tell them I am a Yemeni, they turn to me with looks that accuse me of being a terrorist.” said one of the Yemenis who just returned from the USA after a one-year stay.
This case is one of many including Yemeni citizens living in the USA. Many have been accused of drug dealing, illegal businesses, links to al-Qaeda, money blundering, etc.
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