October 4, 2007

Juror refusing to vote in HLF terror funding trial

Charles has the story at LGF, where he enumerates three possibilities:

1) Fear of retaliation by the terrorist groups whose financiers are on trial.

2) Religious sympathy with the accused.

3) Moonbat moral equivalence.

"Juror refusing to vote in terrorist-financing trial," from Associated Press:

DALLAS — The Dallas trial of a charity accused of financing Middle Eastern terrorists took a twist Wednesday when jurors indicated that a member of the panel was refusing to vote....

Holy Land and five of its former leaders are accused of illegally aiding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which the U.S. government designated a terrorist organization in 1995.

Holy Land was the largest U.S. Muslim charity when the government shut it down in December 2001.