BIGGEST TERROR FUNDING TRIAL IN US HISTORY: MEDIA REFUSES TO COVER

FBI: HLF Linked to Hamas Operatives/CAIR Lies in Legal Brief.

Congressional plans to outlaw material support for designated terrorist groups and their leaders in 1996 caused a stir for leaders of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), evidence released Wednesday shows. More here.

HLF Overseas Speakers Dominated by Hamas
By The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

Officials at the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) have long maintained that they have no relationship with Hamas, a specially designated terrorist group.

Liars! Taqiya!

But HLF’s own list of speakers from abroad, seized by federal agents in 2001, is a veritable roster of Hamas leaders and activists. In a Dallas courtroom Tuesday, FBI Special Agent Robert Miranda told jurors in HLF’s terror support trial how he used telephone records and other information to cement more than three dozen HLF “overseas speakers” to Hamas.

“This is an organization that’s all about money,” Miranda said of HLF. “Who’s raising it for them?”

HLF and five of its officials are on trial for allegedly providing material support to Hamas. The defendants say they merely were helping the poor and needy.

"Needy" for heavy munitions.

HLF Executive Director Shukri Abu Baker has denied any Hamas link for more than a decade. He told Dallas Morning News reporter Gayle Reaves:

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