Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. - Prosecutors in the trial of the Oregon leader of an Islamic charity branch used appeals to provoke prejudice and emotion that included waving the Quran in the air and throwing it on the table in front of jurors, his lawyers say in a request for a new trial.

EUGENE, Ore. - A longtime friend of a man accused of using an Islamic charity to smuggle money to Muslim fighters in Chechnya has testified that defendant Pete Seda wanted to promote peace and help orphans.

EUGENE, Ore. - The co-founder of the American branch of a defunct Islamic charity is going on trial on charges he tried to send $150,000 to Muslim revolutionaries in Chechnya.