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Old 05-27-2009, 08:16 PM   #1
NeroASERCH

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Default Hamas Funder gets 65 Years in Jail
Seems like people are waking up to Muslim-Americans involved in terrorism:

From news article:
Muslim charity member gets 65 years in prison
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.

[...]

After a jury failed to reach a verdict in 2007, the men were convicted in a second trial last November on 108 charges stemming from allegations the charity sent more than $12 million to Hamas. It's illegal to give support to Hamas, which has been listed by the U.S. as a terror group since 1995 and is blamed for hundreds of suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians.

The charity leaders were convicted on charges ranging from supporting a terrorist organization to money laundering and tax fraud. The two men still to be sentenced — Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh — were convicted of conspiracy.

[...]

The defendants said they only fed the needy and gave much-needed aid to a volatile region.

"I did it because I cared, not at the behest of Hamas," Abu Baker told the judge Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis cut off Abu Baker and told him: "You didn't tell the whole story. Palestinians were in a desperate situation, but that doesn't justify supporting Hamas."

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