Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial begins - again
Seeking to concentrate on the more serious charges, federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding retrial asked the judge on Wednesday to drop a number of lessor charges against two of the defendants.
Just a couple weeks ago, Akram Musa Abdallah, aka Abu Saiaf, 54, of Mesa, Ariz. was arrested by the FBI for making false statements related to fund-raising activities for the Holy Land Foundation.
"Federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation case have asked a judge to drop the bulk of the charges against two of the defendants, who still face conspiracy charges alleging they lent support to the terrorist group Hamas.
The 29 counts each that prosecutors want to dismiss against Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh are ones jurors largely acquitted both men on last year, following a two month-long trial and nearly a month of deliberations. Those acquittals were tossed after the judge declared a last-minute mistrial Oct. 22.
Both men still face three of the most serious charges against them, including conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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