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Source: http://www.nysun.com/national/high-stakes-trial-is-set-against-alleged-hamas-arm/85825/
Retrial of Hamas-Linked Holy Land Foundation Begins in Dallas
[New York Sun] Josh Gerstein - Prosecutors are set to take a second run at convicting officers of a Texas-based charity that the government contends was a Hamas beachhead in America, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The first trial, last year, ended in a muddle of partial acquittals and mistrials. Prosecutors contend that the Holy Land Foundation was part of a web of groups set up on behalf of Hamas, a Palestinian Arab political movement that has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks in recent years. The indictment claims that the foundation, which once billed itself as America's largest Muslim charity, funneled $12 million to local Palestinian relief groups which were under the control of Hamas.