[4] Its founding members were also convicted on charges of false statements, money laundering and fundraising on behalf of the U.S.- terrorist designated Hamas.

[10] On 5 September 2001 government agents from FBI, US Customs, Secret Service, the IRS, Commerce Department, and local police raided the InfoCom offices.

[11] InfoCom attracted the attention of the U.S. authorities in 1998, when the name of an employee was found among the contact information listed in the address book of Osama bin Laden’s former personal secretary, Wadih el-Hage, discovered by the FBI.

The connection between el-Hage and Dahduli prompted the FBI to open an investigation into the Palestinian-American charity the Holy Land Foundation[citation needed] as well as to the terrorist designation of a number of affiliated entities.

The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development was the largest Islamic charitable group in the U.S. when, on 4th December 2001, it was closed after President George Bush issued an Executive Order designating it a Domestic Terror Organisation.

After several trials 5 HLF leaders, including Ghassan Elashi, were sentenced to long terms in prison for providing financial support to Hamas.

[15] Ghassan Elashi, who served as InfoCom vice-president, was one of the founders and chairman of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.

[12] Ghassan's second cousin is married to Mousa Abu Marzook, a Palestinian senior member of Hamas then serving as a political leader of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization.