[ April 17, 2024 ]
Has un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial CAIR crafted their press release yet? This should be good; look for "poor, persecuted Islamic murderers". Did they blame the Jews yet, or just the brave Steve Emerson?
HLF Founders Sentenced to Long Prison Terms IPT News
DALLAS – A federal judge imposed what could amount to life sentences on
three former leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
(HLF) on Wednesday for illegally routing more than $12 million to Hamas.
"The purpose of creating the Holy Land Foundation was as a fundraising arm
for Hamas," said U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis.
He sentenced former HLF
Chief Executive Officer Shukri Abu Baker and co-founder Ghassan Elashi to 65
years in prison. Longtime HLF chairman Mohamed El-Mezain, who was convicted only
on one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, received
the maximum 15-year sentence.
All three men are at least 50 years old. Two
additional defendants, Mufid Abdelqader and Abdelrahman Odeh, will be sentenced
Wednesday afternoon.
While appeals are being prepared, the sentencing
hearings end the largest terror financing case in the United States, one which
closed the largest Muslim-American charity in 2001. Its significance, however,
resonates far beyond the Dallas courtroom and the five men convicted by a jury
last November.
The evidence showed that HLF was part of a broad Muslim
Brotherhood conspiracy in the United States called the Palestine Committee,
which was to serve Hamas with "media, money and men." Those exhibits show the
depth of Muslim Brotherhood activity here, which at its height included a think
tank in Virginia, a propaganda arm in Texas and Chicago, and a political
operation that continues to exert influence today.
It also led to the
discovery of a Brotherhood memorandum from 1991 that describes the group's goal
in America. It called for a "civilization-jihadist process" and a "grand jihad"
that aimed at "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within …
so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other
religions."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Palestine
Committee legacy. Last year, the FBI decided to cut off communication with CAIR
due to concerns about the evidence showing the organization's Hamas roots.
"Nevertheless, until we can resolve whether there continues to be a
connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR
as an appropriate liaison partner," wrote Richard C. Powers, an assistant
director in the FBI's office of Congressional Affairs, last month.
Yid with lid notes that the Pali stringers, garden variety Jew haters and America loathers over at AP (Associated with Terrorists Press) whitewashed the harsh and deserved sentences.
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Sammy opines: Associated Press Whitewashes Holy Land Terrorists
At the end of December 2008, the word GUILTY was read a total of 108 times in a Dallas court room jury convicted the Holy Land foundation and each of the five defendants of raising money to fund Hamas terrorism. The defendants were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group.
Today the Holy Land terror trial defendants were sentenced. But if you look at the Associated Press report they were boy scouts with an attitude problem. The headline which has been picked up by newspapers all across the country reads Muslim charity member gets 65 years in prison, and in the body of the piece they are called militants instead of convicted terrorists":
Muslim charity member gets 65 years in prison
DALLAS (AP) — A founding member of what was once the nation's largest Muslim charity was sentenced to 65 years in prison Wednesday for funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Shukri Abu Baker, 50, of Garland, Texas, was the first of five members of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development to be sentenced.
Ghassan Elashi, 55, of Richardson, also got 65 years. Another defendant, Mohammad El-Mezain, 55, was sentenced to 180 months for one count of conspiracy to support a terrorist organization.
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