A federal jury in Dallas has convicted five brothers on charges of illegally selling computers to countries that supported terrorism.
The men -- all born in the Middle East -- ran a computer business in Richardson.
The Elashi brothers were tried on 23 counts including money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements on export shipping documents.
Each count carried a maximum penalty of five or ten years in prison and fines as high as 500-thousand dollars.
Ghassan, Basman, Bayan, Hazim and Ihsan Elashi ran a computer company called InfoCom.
--Ghassan Elashi was found guilty of six counts while Basman Elashi, the company shipping clerk, was convicted on all 23 counts.
--Ihsan Elashi was found guilty of 15 counts. Haszim Elashi was found guilty on nine and Bayan Elashi was convicted on 12 counts.
--The company was found guilty on ten counts.
A trial later this year involves charges that three of the brothers used the computer business to help funnel money to a leader of the militant group Hamas.
What was the last dat of a UBL statement? I've found audio files dated 24 June.
PDF files on the charges can be found here: http://www.google.com/search?q=Ihsan+Elashi+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/07/attacks.product.fraud.ap/index.html