A three-judge New York federal court ruled Thursday night that convicted Hamas and Al Qaeda terrorists did not have a fair trial because of prosecutors' use of anti-terrorist sentiment in their appeal to jurors. They said that the use of testimony with photos and video "amounted to a blatant appeal to the jury's emotions and prejudices."

A lower court in 2005 convicted cleric Mohammed Al Hasan Al-Moayad and Mohammed Mohsen Zayed for funneling money collected at a Brooklyn mosque for Hamas and Al Qaeda terrorist operations.