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The HLF trial, in which CAIR is heavily implicated, continues with some eye-opening revelations. "Prosecutors say Muslim charity in Texas got appeal to help fund holy war," from The Associated Press (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
DALLAS: An unknown Islamist militant appealed to a Texas-based Muslim charity for money to help fund a jihad, or holy war, against Israel, according to a letter that surfaced in the terrorist-financing trial of the charity's leaders.Other letters appeared to thank the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development for helping the children of martyrs — suicide bombers, prosecutors implied.
The letters were among thousands of pages of documents that prosecutors claim show financial dealings between Holy Land, which was shut down in December 2001, and groups controlled by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group the U.S. government considers a terrorist organization.
Five former leaders of Holy Land are on trial in federal district court on charges of raising more than $12 million for Hamas, conspiracy and money laundering. They could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
Defense lawyers, who will begin making their case on Tuesday, have said the men gave humanitarian aid to schools, orphanages and hospitals in Palestinian areas of Israel but denied helping Hamas....
The most inflammatory document introduced by prosecutors was an unsigned, handwritten letter in Arabic from the Islamic Relief Committee, which the U.S. government contends is part of Hamas' network of social organization in Gaza and the West Bank. The unknown author told leaders of Holy Land that Palestinians were happy to see fighters carrying out attacks on Jews.
"Jihad in Palestine is different from any other Jihad; the meaning of killing a Jew for the liberation of Palestine cannot be compared to any Jihad on earth," the author wrote.
The letter implored supporters to "provide us with what helps Weapons, weapons, our brothers."
FBI agent Lara Burns testified that the letter was seized in a 2004 raid at the Virginia home of Ismail Elbarrasse, who served with some of the Holy Land officials on a group of U.S. supporters of the Palestinian cause.
Another letter, from 2000, was a thank-you note from the Islamic Society in Palestine, a group the U.S. government alleges is controlled by Hamas. A group official, Sheikh Ahmad Mohamed Bahr, thanked Holy Land for helping "the children of the martyrs, the wounded, the injured, and the needy."
Other documents appeared to indicate that Holy Land gave money to Hamas officials and fighters whom Israel deported to Lebanon in the early 1990s....
Posted by Robert at August 30, 2007 9:28 PM
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we can hope that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, finally gets named as a co-conspirator in this trial and is finally indited and convicted as a terrorist organization and leaders of cair are finally ordered out of the USA
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at August 30, 2007 9:53 PM
Foreign relations are important. Especially those of the hegemonic kind. Publicly ship a few hundred missiles into Israel, each MIRVed up with mega kilotons, and watch the Arabs sweat.
It's gonna happen anyway, may as well be rid of Damascus and Medina and Mecca and Amman and Istabul and Alexrandia and Tehran and Islamadbad and Jarkarta and all the rest of the trash in one ugly, feiry night.
All launched from right next to Tel Aviv. A nuclear night that will brighten the face of the Earth.
at August 30, 2007 10:09 PM
As psychopathic as those loonies appear to be, I think they should be allowed to speak as they have and continue this psychotic episode of theirs...
...not much different than nazis bragging about their exploits in court..
...it only serves to condemn them by their own hand, but it also serves to wake the public up as well.
This trial is going to be a real circus.
lol
at August 30, 2007 10:14 PM
In response to this horrible Muslim anti-semitism as expressed in the line about 'Jihad in Palestine', you know what I'd like to see?
I'd like to see every single Christian-majority country in the world - led by the USA and the Russian Federation, together with Germany, Poland and Spain - come right out and say: "we recognise the Holy City of Jerusalem as the unique, irreplaceable and inalienable historic political and spiritual centre of the nation of Israel and of the Jewish religion. And, by the way, we moved our embassies there from Tel Aviv, yesterday."
There are others, like South Korea, Singapore and India, that would do well to do likewise.
Oh well, I can dream. I'll pray, too. 'With God, all things are possible".
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at August 30, 2007 11:20 PM
Fibrahim Farfur must be going insane with all these revelations.
What is trully sad is that MSN is totally not reporting this as it should be.
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2007 2:40 AM
In response to this horrible Muslim anti-semitism as expressed in the line about 'Jihad in Palestine', you know what I'd like to see?
[...]
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy
How about 'intifada in New York'?
LOL
at August 31, 2007 4:21 AM
I remember once in an afghani kabob restaurant in the metro DC area a long time ago, there was a donation box for the Holy Land Foundation (with photos of children all over it) right at the cash register.
I'm glad I resisted the urge to donate!
I remember thinking at the time that afghanistan isn't what I'd consider the Holy Land...and that I'd prefer to give to an organization I was more familiar with...say Operation Blessing, Samaritan's Purse, etc.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at August 31, 2007 11:10 AM
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