Verdict reached in Muslim charity’s second trial
(convicted on all of the 108 charges)
Las Vegas Sun | Nov 24, 2008 | ap
Posted on 11/24/2008 1:08:18 PM PST by mdittmar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137615/posts
Of course the United States is giving money to the Palestinian Authority which is giving the money to Hamas I hear.
Old article relating to HLF & Hamas trial:
Obama’s Muslim outreach director resigns
By NEDRA PICKLER
WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney who volunteered to help Barack Obama improve his relationship with Muslim and Arab-Americans has resigned from the campaign amid questions about his connection to a fundamentalist imam.
Mazen Asbahi started as the campaign’s outreach coordinator on July 26, and he resigned in a letter to the campaign Monday. He said he was stepping down “to avoid distracting from Barack Obama’s message of change.”
Asbahi, an associate at the Chicago law firm Schiff Hardin, said in his letter that he served on the board of the Dow Jones Islamic Index Fund for a few weeks, but resigned “as I became aware of public allegations against another member of the board.”
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the other board member during Asbahi’s tenure in 2000 was Jamal Said, imam at a fundamentalist-controlled mosque in Illinois. The Justice Department named Said as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fundraisers. The case ended in a mistrial.
The newspaper said the connections were first exposed by an Internet newsletter....