Posted on 05/09/2009 12:55:03 PM PDT by Cindy
Prosecutors have secured their seventh conviction in the Hamas-financing case against the defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).
On Wednesday, 54-year-old Akram Abdallah pled guilty to lying to federal agents about his HLF involvement during interviews in 2007.
According to his indictment, Abdallah told FBI agents he had nothing to do with HLF, when, in fact, "between approximately 1994 and 1997, defendant was involved in fund raising activities" in the Phoenix area.
Abdallah faces up to eight years in prison when he is sentenced in August.
In November, five former HLF officials were convicted on 108 counts related to illegal Hamas financing. Jurors agreed that HLF routed more than $12 million to Hamas through a series of charities, or zakat committees, after U.S. law made such support illegal.
They are scheduled to be sentenced May 27 in Dallas and face sentences ranging from 15 years to life in prison. In 2006, a Georgia imam named Mohamed Shorbagi pled guilty to providing material support to a terrorist organization. Shorbagi agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of reducing his prison sentence and testified at the HLF trial last fall. He told jurors he knew money given to HLF would make its way to Hamas.
"It is important that the public cooperate in investigations involving national security," Diane J. Humetewa, United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, said in a statement about Abdallah's plea. "We will aggressively prosecute anyone who lies about investigations relating to international terrorism or its financing."
Providing support to Hamas became illegal in 1995...
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Damn!
An Arab Muslim lying to infidels?
Who the hell could have imagined????
Folks - LYING IS APPROVED BY THE KORAN....
http://islamcommentaries.com/lying.htm
Al-Takeyyah: Lying for Allah
Al-Takeyyah (ahl-tah-KAY-uh) is the Islamic principle of lying for the sake of Allah. Falsehoods told to prevent denigration of Islam, to protect oneself, or to promote the cause of Islam are sanctioned by the Qur’an, including lying under penalty of perjury in testimony before the United States Congress, lying or making distorted statements to the media such as claiming that Islam is a religion of peace, and deceiving fellow Muslims when the one lying has deemed them to be apostates.
Lying for Allah by Abdullah Al Araby
Islam in general, forbids lying. The Quran says, “Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies.” Surah 40:28. However, within Islam there are certain provisions under which lying is not simply tolerated, but actually encouraged. According to Muhammad, ‘He is not a false person who (through lies) settles conciliation among people, supports good or says what is good.”
O’s pardon list grows.
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