US: Facts Tie Muslim Groups to Hamas

Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:54:42 am PDT

Federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial are rejecting the claims of radical Islamic front groups ISNA and NAIT that they were unfairly listed as unindicted co-conspirators in the case: U.S.: Facts Tie Muslim Groups To Hamas Front Case.

In a filing yesterday in federal court in Dallas, prosecutors said the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust suffered no lasting harm by being included on the co-conspirator list prosecutors filed prior to the trial last year of the Holy Land Foundation and five of its officers because evidence supporting the claim became public just weeks later.

“During last year’s trial, numerous exhibits were entered into evidence establishing both ISNA’s and NAIT’s intimate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestine Committee, and the defendants in this case,” the prosecutors wrote. “They were intimately connected with the HLF and its assigned task of providing financial support to HAMAS. ... That ISNA and NAIT appeared in these documents and share a common history with these defendants is a reflection of the evidence, not any attempt to ‘disparage’ or ‘vilify.’”