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  • America Says It Will Retry Holy Land Foundation

    10/23/2007 7:58:10 AM PDT · by vietvet67 · 6 replies · 130+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | October 23, 2007 | JOSH GERSTEIN
    DALLAS — The federal government's strategy for prosecuting alleged terrorist fund-raising in America is faltering after jurors failed to agree on most charges against five officials of what was once America's largest Muslim charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. After 19 days of jury deliberations, Judge Allen Joe Fish declared a mistrial yesterday on the bulk of the charges. His action followed a morning of confusing proceedings in which the jury returned written verdicts of not guilty on some counts, but three jurors told the judge that they disagreed with at least part of what was recorded...