Then, at precisely 7 a.m. CDT, on July 27, 2004, the homes of Shukri Abu Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader, Abdulrahman Odeh, and Mohammad Elmezain were raided by local and federal officers. All five men, who came to be known as the HLF- 5, were taken into custody. Four years and two trials later, all five were sent to federal prison, serving sentences ranging from 15 to 65 years.
Accusing charity organizations that support Palestinians of “funding terrorism” requires a great deal of creativity but also a certain amount of collaboration between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. John Boyd, one of the attorneys who represented the HLF in the cases that were brought, told me he felt that “all the rules that have been put in place to protect innocent people had been suspended in this case,” and that the judges who were involved, “abdicated their duties to uphold the law and defend innocent people.”
LG~~IMHO article was written by a very slanted LSM peep. A “terrorist” is only a “freedom fighter” so funding would go the same way.