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One of the most widely circulated documents from Dallas' Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case should never have been released publicly and violated the Fifth Amendment due process rights of a prominent Islamic organization, according to a federal judge's ruling recently ordered unsealed by an appeals court.
The finding by U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis is a bittersweet victory for the North American Islamic Trust.
The trust, along with the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America, have for years said that their inclusion among Holy Land's unindicted co-conspirators – a list of 246 individuals and groups – amounts to guilt by association.
Despite the Fifth Amendment violation, Solis denied NAIT's request to have its name taken off the government's list, finding "ample evidence" linking it to Holy Land.