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US Hamas case defendants acquitted

seems the DOD just can not make these charges stick.

US Hamas case defendants acquitted

A US jury has found two Palestinian-born men not guilty of carrying out what prosecutors said was a 15-year conspiracy to illegally finance Hamas terrorist activities in Israel.

Muhammad Salah, 53, and co-defendant Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 48, were acquitted on Thursday in Chicago of racketeering conspiracy, the major charge against them and one that could have drawn a sentence of 40 years to life.

They were found guilty on lesser obstruction of justice charges, relating in Salah's case to a statement denying membership in Hamas.........

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1. ..."This is the second time the United States government has tried to bring this

....."This is the second time the United States government has tried to bring this conflict into a criminal court of law," Ashqar's attorney, William Moffitt, said.

He referred to a Tampa, Florida, jury's acquittal of a computer sciences professor on most terror funding charges in 2005.

In January 1993, Salah was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint and found to be carrying nearly $100,000 in cash.

His two-month interrogation produced written and tape-recorded confessions that helped send him to an Israeli prison for four and a half years.

Lawyers for both Salah and Ashqar said they were only involved in charitable work.
Source: Agencies

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