In another major legal defeat for the Bush administration, two men were acquitted Thursday of belonging to the Palestinian group Hamas and supporting terror attacks within the U.S. The defendants, Abdelhaleem Ashqar and Muhammad Salah, were charged in a case that has drawn attention over its reliance on Israeli intelligence. Prosecutors called Israeli intelligence agents to the stand and submitted statements Salah made under Israeli interrogation. Defense lawyers claimed those statements were coerced.