Justice was finally achieved the second time around in the Dallas federal court re-trail of the Holy Land Foundation matter.  See this Dallas Morning report here. Credit it to better jury selection and better presentation of an intelligible case put on by the federal prosecutors. The presentation included witness testimony  from the FBI about the Muslim Brotherhood secret 20 year plan to replace the US Constitution with Islamic Sharia law  and evidence from Israeli security experts about what Islamic charity funds sent to Hamas as ‘zakat’ ended up being used for-building a terrorist infrastructure. The unanimous conviction of the Holy Land Foundation principals on 108 counts comes after the government prosecutors made a hash of the original trial that ended in a hung jury and allegations that one juror, a graphic designer, was the holdout who cowed his fellow jurors.  Doubtless the media, even in this Dallas Morning News report will bend over backwards to accommodate the blandishments of Palestinian and Muslim advocacy groups seeking to overturn this conviction  in the court of public opinion.  They will argue that all of the Zakat funds went for humanitarian purposes-health care, hospitals, social services sponsored by Hamas, a foreign organization designated by our State Department as a terrorist group.   Note these comments in the Dallas Morning News report from two counter terrorism and legal commentators. They zero in on the real implications of this decision for Muslim Brotherhood groups who funneled the more than $60 million to Hamas via the Holy Land Foundation-the so-called unindicted co-conspirators.

"The government showed in a streamlined case that where special assistance to the families of terrorists is concerned, cash is the moral equivalent of a car bomb," said Peter Margulies, Roger Williams University law professor who studies terrorism financing cases.