The judge in the terrorist financing case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its principals has declared a mistrial after members of the jury failed to reach an agreement as to their guilt or innocence. The important 197-count criminal case, pending in US District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, has been closely followed, for the government's theory in portraying the defendants as money launderers and terrorist financiers for Hamas appears to be based upon the defendants' contribution to charitable causes. Did the jury fail to buy it?

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