UnCAIRing

The ongoing federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation is receiving almost no coverage in the mainstream media, though it has been full of newsworthy revelations. Among the intensely interesting items to come out of the trial is the brief filed by CAIR seeking to strike the government’s list of unindicted co-conspirators in the case. This morning NRO has posted “Coming clean about CAIR,” a column collecting my thoughts on CAIR’s brief. Having read the brief, I was struck, among other things, by how comletely the New York Times missed its newsworthy elements in Neil MacFarquhar’s pathetic story on the subject. In any event, please check out the column
The Counterterrorism Blog continues to provide invaluable coverage of the Holy Land Foundation trial via Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism. In a report on Monday’s proceedings, the trial correspondent notes a revealing outburst by defendant Ghassan Elashi:

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