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Federal prosecutors opposed a move to clear two groups named as unindicted co-conspirators in a terrorism-financing case Thursday, contending in a court filing that evidence presented at trial showed the organizations' ties to the defendants and Middle Eastern terrorists.
The Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust were among some 250 Muslim individuals and groups named by the government in its case against the Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to expunge the group's names from public documents identifying them as unindicted co-conspirators. The ACLU seeks to have the court declare the government's actions a violation of the Fifth Amendment right to due process.