To answer that age—old student question about what I did during the summer break...

A University of Arkansas PhD student learned recently he would not graduate in May as planned, and decided to join the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and engage in a holy war against Israel, according to federal authorities.  Federal agents have arrested Arwah J. Jaber of Fayetteville on a criminal complaint accusing him of knowingly attempting to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization.  The complaint against Jaber details specific emails to his professors in which he stated that due to the fact that he was not going to be able to graduate in May, he "...decided to take an honorable job in Palestine with Palestinian Islamic Jihad to pursue a more noble cause — freedom, justice and peace for the Palestinians and to fight Israeli terrorism.'  He also wrote that, '[t]his action will make it impossible for me to come back to the states for dissertation defense — assuming I am still alive.  However, I shall do my best finish (sic) my degree before I leave.' ...

Ed Lasky    6 28 05