A jury today convicted the Holy Land Foundation and five of its top officials on 108 charges connected to channeling at least $12 million to Hamas between 1995, when Hamas was declared a terrorist organization, and 2001, when the Foundation was closed down by the U.S. government. An earlier trial had ended in a hung jury last year; this outcome is a substantial victory for the U.S. government.
The prosecution introduced a number of documents to demonstrate that the Holy Land Foundation was connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, including a 1991 memorandum that states that the Brotherhood's work in America is "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands ... " For more details on the various documents presented at the first trial, see the NEFA Foundation's website here.
The jury also determined that the Holy Land Foundation should forfeit $12.4 million in defendants' assets because of convictions on several money laundering charges related to the case.
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