IPT News
November 24, 2008
updated 5:25 p.m.
DALLAS – A jury convicted five former officials at the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) on all counts [apprx 100 counts] in the Hamas-support case after 8 days of deliberations [following 15 years of investigations and two trials costing millions in legal cost].
The men, Shukri Abu-Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mohamed El-Mezain, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdelrahman Odeh, could face up to 20 years in prison for their convictions on conspiracy counts, including conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The verdicts, read Monday afternoon, ended a two-year saga in what is considered the largest terror financing case since the 9/11 attacks.... |