HLF Prosecution: CAIR ‘Affiliated With’ Hamas
Charles Johnson
Fri Sep 7, 2007 at 9:01 am PDT • Views: 262
Just realized that I almost forgot to post about the prosecution’s motion in opposition to CAIR’s amicus brief in the HLF trial; you may recall that CAIR asked the court to take the unprecedented step of removing them from the list of unindicted co-conspirators.
The prosecution makes it very explicit that CAIR is on that list because they belong there: CAIR “affiliated with” Hamas.
On Tuesday, the prosecution in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) filed its motion in opposition to the amicus brief filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
In addition to picking apart the arguments laid out in CAIR’s brief piece by piece, the government set an important precedent, officially and definitively linking CAIR to Hamas, writing:
In the instant case, striking CAIR’s name from the attachment to the Trial Brief will not prevent its conspiratorial involvement with HLF, and others affiliated with Hamas, from becoming a matter of public record. That has already occurred as a consequence of the presentation of evidence at trial. (emphasis added)
Frank says: