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Hamas Leader, Others Charged in Texas
(Reuters) A leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, his wife, and five employees of a Texas computer company have been charged with breaking U.S. laws that ban dealing in terrorist funds, officials said on Wednesday. A 33-count indictment by a federal grand jury in Dallas named Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas political leader who was deported from the U.S. in 1997. The vice president of InfoCom Corp., Ghassan Elashi, and four of his brothers were also charged. Elashi is chairman of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., which was shut down last year after being designated by the government as a terrorist group.