Holy Land Foundation found guilty of funding terrorism

BBC:

A Muslim charity and five of its former leaders have been convicted of funding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, designated a terrorist group in the US.

Jurors reached the guilty verdict after eight days of deliberations in the retrial of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.

The group - once the largest US Muslim charity - was accused of giving more than $12m (£8m) to support Hamas.

It was the largest terrorism financing trial since the 9/11 attacks.

The former head of the charity, Ghassan Elashi, and the former chief executive, Shukri Abu-Baker, were convicted of 69 counts including money laundering and tax fraud.

Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh were convicted on three counts of conspiracy, and Mohammed El-Mezain was convicted on one count of conspiracy to support a terrorist organisation.

The Holy Land group was convicted on 32 counts. A sentencing date has yet to be announced.

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The previous trial resulted in a mistrial. This is good news for the war against the Muslim religious bigots. The chief beneficiary of the "charity" was the Hamas death cult which turned its children into human bombs to engage in mass murder for Allah.

The Dallas Morning News has more on the verdict.

Counterterrorism Blog discusses the possible impact of the verdict on "unindicted co-conspirators include CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust, and the Islamic Relief Committee." It has been a bad week some of these guys.