Muslim charity's terror-funding trial goes to jury in Dallas

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Source: Associated Press

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"After two months of testimony and three days of lawyers' closing arguments, a jury prepared Wednesday to begin deliberating whether leaders of a Muslim charity spent years helping needy people or secretly financed Middle East terrorism.

Prosecutors said the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development used charity as a cover to funnel millions in illegal aid to groups controlled by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Holy Land and five of its former leaders are not accused of violence. Rather, prosecutors have pieced together documents and videotapes that they say show a careful and secretive plan to bankroll social services that helped Hamas gain support from Palestinian civilians and recruit suicide bombers.

Defense attorneys say Holy Land, the largest Muslim charity in the country until federal agents shut it down in December 2001, only provided help to desperately poor children and families, many of them living in refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank."



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1. Anyone taking bets

I predict a guilty verdict.