Terror Financing Case Had Hamas Sympathizer on Jury

Story here. This is plainly outrageous. There needs to be a new trial, but without any terrorist-sympathizing jurors! Damn... terrorists get off because of a sympathetic juror? This isn't good... not at all.

Jurors in Dallas, Texas, were not able to produce verdicts for the four defendants who were leaders of the former Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development -- an Islamic charity. Another defendant was acquitted on most charges, but jurors were unable to reach a verdict on a separate charge -- resulting in a mistrial on that count. But then came the revelation that juror William Neal was sympathetic to Hamas, and apparently misled U.S. prosecutors about his neutrality in order to get on the panel.

Robert Spencer is director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom
Center. Spencer says the juror in question denied Hamas was a terrorist organization.

"He has said that the United States was founded by terrorists, that the Boston Tea Party was a terrorist act, and that Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, is fighting against an oppressive government," details Spencer.

According to the Jihad Watch director, Neal has not even tried to hide his opinions since the trial, and the Islamic critic believes the juror needs to be held accountable. "It would seem as if the things that he has said since the end of the trial ought to be actionable in some way against him," continues Spencer. "Because he belies the notion of an impartial jury that doesn't come into a trial with any kind of preconceived notions or prejudges."