Muslim charity's terror-funding trial goes to jury in Dallas

So exactly how close to home is terrorism?

Roughly 183 miles.

A case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development accuses the group raising of more than 12 million dollars to fund terrorist operations. The main point of the prosecution and its chief witness was that the Palestinian groups supported by the group were controlled by the terrorist organization known as the Hamas. The defense argued that the organization only provided help to desperately poor children and families, many of them living in refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank.

The government shut down the organization in 2001 from raised suspicions of terrorist support. One of the chairmen for the organization, Ghassan Elashi, is already serving prison terms after being convicted in two other cases of making illegal computer shipments to countries supporting terrorism, and of having financial dealings with a designated terrorist, a Hamas leader who is married to his cousin.

This article is good to read and research because it shows just how close something may be even though you think that it may not exist or happen to you. It is interesting to see how the networks of terrorism can extend almost anywhere. For me the article took some, not much, but some of the buzz off of the term "global terrorism." It is ironic that a charity be accused of something like this, and surprising how easy it may have been(final verdict not given yet) to keep up the illusion of a charity. I would recommend this article and its related topics to those of you who may have found it difficult to support our "war on terror." It may not be convincing enough, but it is close to home.

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