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The media have portrayed a hung jury in a major terrorism trial as a defeat for the Bush Justice Department's counterterrorism efforts.(The Week ...)(Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development)(Brief article)

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The media have portrayed a hung jury in a major terrorism trial as a defeat for the Bush Justice Department's counterterrorism efforts. But it is not obviously that. The defendants were five operatives of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development: allegedly a financial supporter of Hamas, and a designated terrorist entity since 2001. The Justice Department indeed appears to have made mistakes. The exceptionally complex indictment, involving 197 charges when conviction on only a few would have put the defendants away for life, needlessly complicated the jury's ...

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