Friday, November 21, 2008

Holy Land Trial: "I Suspect the Defendants Will be Viewed as Freedom Fighters Dedicated to Liberating Palestine, the Same way Mandela was Viewed by South Africans"......

Nevermind the fact that they support people who indiscriminately murder innocent Israeli civilians....who cares if a bunch of Jooooos are killed?......

As jurors continue to deliberate in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing retrial, supporters on both side of the aisle appear to be preparing to claim a moral victory – whatever the verdict is.

Today marks the jurors' seventh day of deliberations, which follow nearly two months of testimony. Last year's panel deliberated 19 days before a judge declared them deadlocked and called for a mistrial.

For the defense, the goal is acquittals for the five defendants charged with funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian militant group Hamas after the U.S. declared it a terrorist organization 1995.

"I suspect that they will be viewed much the same way that Mandela was viewed by the black South African population – as freedom fighters who have dedicated their lives to the liberation of Palestine,"said William Moffitt, the Virginia defense attorney who represented two former university professors, Abdelhaleem Ashqar and Sami Al-Arian. They were acquitted in trials in Chicago and Florida on similar charges that they steered support to Palestinian terrorists.

Mr. Ashqar was sentenced to 11 years in prison last year for refusing to testify for a grand jury about his Hamas ties. Dr. Al-Arian pleaded guilty in 2006 to a charge of supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihad and is being held on contempt charges for refusing to co-operate in another terrorism support investigation. But both are viewed as folk heroes by some in the Muslim community.

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