Shukri Abu Baker, former president of the Holy Land Foundation
A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a verdict on many of the 197 counts. The case, involving the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its backers, is the government’s largest and most complex legal effort to shut down what it contends is American financing for terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
This fiasco is just the latest in a long string of prosecutorial failures for the Bush administration. I guess it’s tough to win a case when you don’t have much evidence.
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