The father sat in the courtroom weeping, and his daughters hugged him and did their best to console him. Albert Snyder not only lost his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, in Iraq in 2006, but then had to relive the horror of having Matthew?s funeral picketed by the in-your-face, fire-and-brimstone Westboro Baptist Church.

Snyder?s attorney said Tuesday in closing arguments in the first lawsuit against Westboro that the fringe group intended to terrorize him and his grieving family.

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