Well, the two men were found innocent of the terror related charge: money laundering for Hamas terrorists conspiring to attack the Israeli government. But they were found guilty of obstruction of justice.
Salah and Asqhar are former academics: Salah taught computer classes at Olive Harvey College in Chicago, Asqhar is a former assistant business professor from Howard University.
From 1993 until 1997, Salah was imprisoned in Israel after confessing to being a financier for Hamas--Salah claims his confession was coerced.
Michael Deutsch was the attorney for Salah. A real piece of work, this guy is.
From the Daily Southtown last fall:
The 1969 Northwestern University Law School graduate and longtime lawyer with People's Law Office has made a career of defending unpopular causes: He represented inmates behind the riots at Attica Penitentiary in New York State, and later did extensive defense work for members of of FALN, a radical Puerto Rican independence group behind a series of bombings in the 1970s.
The Salah-Asqhar defense team wanted to bring in DePaul's Jewish anti-semitic political science professor Norman Finkelstein to testify for their clients.
But that didn't happen.
I wonder if Jimmy Carter was contacted by the defense?
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