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A judge in Dallas, Texas has sentenced three of the five defendants in the Holy Land Hamas terror-funding case so far this morning. Two founders received hefty sentences that will likely keep them in prison for life. Abdulrahman Odeh and former Oklahoman Mufid Abdulqader and younger half-brother of Hamas' supreme political leader, Khaled Mashal. will be sentenced later on today. From the Dallas Morning News: "...Shukri Abu Baker, 50, of Garland was ordered to serve 65 years in prison as sentencing began for five men convicted on charges in the largest terrorism financing case in American history. Another founder, Ghassan Elashi, 55, of Richardson, was sentenced to 65 years in prison. ...Another defendant, Mohammad El-Mezain, 55, was sentenced to 180 months in prison, followed by three years of supervisory release after serving that time. Jurors found him guilty of providing support to Hamas, having been acquitted on 31 other charges in 2007..." Dallas Morning News ----- Additional posts on HLF Court documents and evidence THE HOLY LAND FIVE: U.S. POLITICAL PRISONERS SINCE NOV. 24, 2008 (website maintained by family and friends of the convicted)
A judge in Dallas, Texas has sentenced three of the five defendants in the Holy Land Hamas terror-funding case so far this morning. Two founders received hefty sentences that will likely keep them in prison for life. Abdulrahman Odeh and former Oklahoman Mufid Abdulqader and younger half-brother of Hamas' supreme political leader, Khaled Mashal. will be sentenced later on today. A 1992 video places Abdulqader and Mashal together at a major Hamas fundraising conference in Oklahoma City, where Abdulqader and his fellow Al Sakhra members, all wearing traditional kaffiyeh headscarves and desert robes, sang: "I have nerves of steel, and no threats scare me. Only the one who is proud of carrying the rifle will succeed. No to the peace conference! Yes to jihad!." Our people in Al Aqsa (Jerusalem) are out to revenge, to destroy the enemy," Abdulqader sang in another Al Sakhra production. "Our revolution is spread throughout the land! With Koran and Jihad, we will gain our homes back ... My precious eyes are for Palestine, the agony of death is precious, killing Jews … Death to Jews, is precious. Jews will not fear threats, only action. So Hamas, hit them with the shoe bottoms of Islam...