By Debbie Schlussel
L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l! Imagine me making that same high-pitched hyena noise the Arabs do whenever they’re celebrating or happy over us saving their precious Kuwait or them toppling two large American towers with 3,000 Americans in them.
Here’s why. Keep in mind, I’ve been writing about the Holy Land Foundation for over a decade, before most people ever heard of it:

A jury on Monday determined that the Holy Land Foundation and five men who worked with the Muslim charity were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
The unanimous verdicts are a complete victory for the government, which streamlined its case after a mistrial last year, and worked hard to carefully educate jurors on the complex evidence presented in the massive case. Guilty verdicts were read on 108 separate charges.

Later Monday, the jury determined that Holy Land should forfeit $12.4 million in defendants’ assets because of several convictions on money laundering charges related to the case. . . .
“My dad is not a criminal!” sobbed one courtroom observer after the verdicts were read. “He’s a human!”

So was Jeffrey Dahmer. And he killed fewer people.

But critics of the government case argued that even convictions would carry an asterisk noting that it took untold millions of taxpayer dollars, 15 years of investigation and two long, high-profile trials to finally convince a jury of the defendants’ guilt.

Well, it’s about time the feds actually won one big one in 8 lazy years of barely trying. But actually, they sorta lost this, since it took ’em 15 years to do it, since this was the second trial and three of five defendants who should’ve been punished were acquitted of most charges. Only Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker and three others were convicted, yesterday.
Oh, and then there’s that matter of how the government ignored FBI Agent Robert Wright for years and then demoted and tried to fire him when he insisted the government go after HLF (and after he balked at the U.S. deporting HLF financier and top HAMAS figure Musa Abu Marzook). Wright’s “Operation Vulgar Betrayal” helped start the investigation into Marzook and Holy Land Foundation way back when.
In fact, the feds did not want to pursue HLF, but their hand was forced by Special Agent Wright, often a lone courageous figure, whom they repeatedly persecuted. I wrote about all of this in a 2004 New York Post column.
But, hey, at least it’s something.
The funniest phrase in this article by Dallas Morning News reporters Jason Trahan and Tanya Eiserer is this clueless thought:

[E]fforts at fighting terrorism financing in court have been troubled, even though the flow of funds seems to be effectively shut down.

“Effectively shut down”? Are you fricking kidding me? Hilarious. Puh-leeze. Muslims tied to Hezbollah and HAMAS are sending funds “back home” every single day–funds money-laundered and obtained from cigarette smuggling, Bridge Card/food stamp fraud, mortgage fraud, bank fraud, credit card fraud, real estate fraud, etc., etc., etc.
The only thing that’s been “effectively shut down” is the federal investigation into this stuff, with the elimination of the U.S. Customs Service Office of Investigation and its “Operation Greenquest.” Fortunately, some overtaxed state police agencies are picking up some of the slack, but it’s a drop in the bucket.
Now, the question is whether Federal Judge Jorge A. Solis throws the book at these scumbags who financed mass murder of innocent civilians, or whether he goes soft on them.
We’ll see. Stay tuned.
Rot in Hell, bitches.