You aren't from around here? The Charlotte Observer reports that: Ending three days of deliberations, a federal jury in Charlotte on Friday convicted two Lebanese brothers of conspiring to aid Middle Eastern terrorists. Apparently, Mohamad Hammoud was a Hezbollah buttboy, and when he arrived in the USA he got his brother Chawki into an cigarette smuggling scheme in which at least some of the profits went to Hezbollah. Some of the more dramatic evidence:

• Investigators found anti-American and anti-Israel videos in Mohamad Hammoud's east Charlotte home. One shows a burning car with a crowd chanting "Death to America. Death to Israel."

• FBI wiretaps captured Mohamad Hammoud talking on the telephone with Sheik Abbas Harake, Hezbollah's military commander in Beirut.

• Federal investigators found a letter in Mohamad Hammoud's home urging him to donate money to the resistance in Lebanon and suggesting that he had raised money in the past for Hezbollah's military operations.

• Prosecutors showed jurors a photo of Mohamad Hammoud as a teen-ager at a Hezbollah Center in Lebanon. He was holding an AK-47.

And just for Mary Robinson, they were also charged and apparently convicted of immigration violations involving phony visas and sham marriages, but none of the US media cared to share those details.