Five local Palestinian-Americans(?) are convicted of conspiring to use Infocom to make illegal shipments of high-tech goods to Libya and Syria.

Elashi brothers convicted in export case

A spokesman for the team of prominent defense attorneys told reporters after the verdicts that he continued to believe the Elashis had been singled out because they were Palestinian Muslims. An appeal of the convictions is likely, he said. "I think this is still our position that the government overreached," Mike Gibson said. "If they were not of their nationality and religion, they would have been prosecuted administratively and not been prosecuted criminally."

In other words, they're definitely guilty, but got a bad break because they were doing business in the wrong country at the wrong time. Nice try.