Timothy Shavers, of the Department of Homeland Security, spent Tuesday afternoon walking jurors through an alphabet soup of immigration forms.

A few jurors nodded off until Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Zitek moved the testimony to applications Al-Arian submitted to bring a number of people into the country.

``And you were wondering how this trial could possibly last six months?'' joked U.S. District Judge James Moody.

Prosecutors seemed to be laying a foundation by showing how members of the alleged conspiracy came together. Some charges deal with immigration violations.

The indictment accuses Al- Arian of lying repeatedly, including a claim that he didn't know the full identity of Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, who has run the Palestinian Islamic Jihad since late 1995. When Shallah was appointed, Al-Arian said he only knew him as Ramadan Abdullah. Immigration papers submitted in 1993 show that was not true.

Moody suggested Zitek find a way to pick up the pace when he resumes today. Either that ``or bring a supply of No-Doz.''

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