Wednesday, May 27, 2009 By JASON TRAHAN / Order Dallas Stickersjtrahan@dallasnews.com U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis on Wednesday morning handed down sentences that will likely mean two founders of the Holy Land Foundation will spend the rest of their lives behind bars for financing the terrorist group Hamas. Shukri Abu Baker, 50, of Garland was…
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 WASHINGTON (CNN) — A major Islamic charity and seven of its key officials have been indicted on charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism with millions of dollars, federal officials announced Tuesday. A federal grand jury in Dallas, Texas, indicted the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and its leaders. The…
Writing to the HLF 5 Send a letter to the Holy Land Five. You can find the most up to date location of where federal prisoners are from this bureau of prisons link. To locate and find inmates, and to write to them you need their Inmate Name & Register Number: Ghassan Elashi 29687-177Shukri Abu-Baker 32589-177Mufid Abdulqader 32590-177Mohammad El-Mezain…
All Muslims are terrorists—that’s what prosecutors and a witness insinuated Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 during the third day of the Holy Land Foundation retrial after the jury left for the day. It quickly became more apparent than ever before that the five defendants are being targeted for the religion they follow. Individuals who often use…
The Holy Land Foundation was the largest Muslim charity in the United States. Founded in 1989 in Culver City, Calif. near Los Angeles and based in Richardson, Texas, the foundation provided relief to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and occupied Palestine. It also aided other countries including Bosnia, Albania, Chechnya, Turkey and the United States,…
As we’ve shown in our Counterpoints to the Case, the Holy Land Foundation is not being accused of providing funds to HAMAS, nor is HLF being accused of committing or supporting any acts of violence. So, what crime is the government charging HLF with? Feeding orphans. So, why is this important to us as Americans? Well, think for a…
Jurors listened more intensely than ever before on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, as they got crash courses on Islam and the Palestinian culture. Second Defense Witness Dr. John Esposito, a prominent scholar on Islam and a professor at Georgetown University, was the next witness called to the stand. Esposito, who is Roman Catholic, began by…
This report documents the effect of U.S. government actions on American Muslims’ exercise of their right to profess and practice their religion through charitable giving. The ACLU’s research shows that U.S. terrorism financing policies and practices are seriously undermining American Muslims’ protected constitutional liberties and violating their fundamental human rights to freedom of religion, freedom…
DALLAS — While the U.S. Justice Department ponders how it will retry its troubled terrorism finance case against a now- defunct Muslim charity, debris from the recent mistrial here shows signs of piling up at the White House doorstep. The nation’s biggest terrorism finance case ended so badly for the government that it has thrown…
By LESLIE EATON, New York TimesOctober 23, 2007DALLAS — A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a verdict on many of…