JURY REACHES VERDICT IN HOLY LAND FOUNDATION TERROR TRIAL:

After 19 days of deliberations, the jury in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial returned a verdict Thursday afternoon. But it will be Monday before the defendants find out their fate.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney said during a hastily called hearing Thursday that the jury’s decisions on the complex case will remain sealed until Monday morning, when the case’s presiding judge, U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish, returns to town. . . .

The five Holy Land defendants, all but one a U.S. citizen, were accused of raising more than $12 million and wiring it to Palestinian charity committees, who prosecutors say were controlled by a illegal terrorist group, Hamas.

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