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No word from the judge yet. Instead, the prosecution has gone back to introducing, one by one, fairly innocuous exhibits, most involving lengthy intercepted phone conversations and emails between Sami Al-Hussayen and others about technical, management and staffing problems involving various web sites.

The day has also featured numerous exhibits showing Al-Hussayen paid credit card bills for web site registration for numerous Islamic sites. Then, in an intercepted, translated email from October of 2002 introduced into evidence this afternoon, Al-Hussayen wrote, “I am in religious turmoil, and I am concerned about paying the credit card bills every month. I am depriving my children and myself from all our needs,” adding that he had had to take out loans.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Eye On Boise." Read all stories from this blog