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Leaders of Holy Land Charity Sentenced for Funding Hamas
printA federal court sentenced the five leaders of an Islamic charity to a total of 180 years in prison Wednesday for funneling $12 million to a blacklisted Palestinian terrorist group. A jury convicted the heads of the Richardson, Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Charity on November 24 for sending the funds to Hamas, a Palestinian political party that has been blacklisted for terrorist acts by the United States since 1995. The trial followed a 2007 failed prosecution that ended in a hung jury. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis sentenced the charity's chief executive officer, Shukri Abu...
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