Man removed from lankmark terrorism case

There's one happy Muslim in America today:

"A Bridgeview man once accused of funneling money to a Palestinian militant group has dodged a $156 million judgment in a potential landmark case after a federal appeals court dropped him from the case.

The nearly dozen judges who make up the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago on Wednesday ruled that Mohammed Salah shouldn't be part of the judgment to be paid to the family of an American teen killed in the West Bank 12 years ago.

...But in their 87-page ruling, the judges said Salah, who was imprisoned in Israel from 1993 to 1997 for giving money to Hamas, couldn't have violated the law that was enacted while he was in prison. The appeals court upheld the original ruling against the other organizations, though it remanded the case against the Holy Land Foundation back to the lower courts.

After the ruling, Salah's attorney, Matthew Piers, said the decision ended a disturbing chapter in his client's life. Last year, Salah was acquitted of terrorism-related racketeering charges, claiming that he recruited members and delivered cash to Hamas, but he was convicted of lying about his ties to the group.

...Salah, who was released from federal prison in October and now is in a halfway house, was unavailable for comment."  Sun Times

Yesterday, a federal appeals court in Chicago upheld a $156 million verdict against three Palestinian fundraisers accused of bankrolling terrorism.