Hamas Professor in Mississippi Caught Through Eavesdropping

Remember the kerfuffle about the US eavesdropping program on international calls from America to known terrorists? The Democrats' position was essentially that the need did not exist.

This story reports on a Mississippi professor who was actually a Hamas leader who had made 568 phone calls to a single Hamas terror leader in the Middle East.

The article doesn't say under which security program the phone calls were detected, but doesn't this bolster the argument that there is a genuine need for such surveillance?

Prosecutor: U.S. Student Was Hamas Terrorist Leader

Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 48, who was a graduate student at the University of Mississippi in the early 1990s, was an important Hamas terrorist leader directing thousands of dollars to families of members who were jailed or killed, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Ferguson said Tuesday in closing arguments at the trial of two accused militants. "He's Hamas, and he's assisting the murderous terrorist activities of Hamas," Ferguson told jurors. "We're talking about someone who is a graduate student...and you see hundreds of thousands of dollars coursing through his accounts," Ferguson said. Federal agents found that Ashqar spoke 568 times by phone with Mousa Abu Marzook, a top Hamas leader believed to be living in Syria.