Well Texans do like to exaggerate....

It appears President Bush has been making the statement that "federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of those charged have been convicted."

Yet it appears that isn't quite true...Yes...a shock...I know......

39 people -- not 200 -- have been convicted of crimes related to terrorism or national security.
Most of the others were convicted of relatively minor crimes such as making false statements and violating immigration law -- and had nothing to do with terrorism, the analysis shows. Overall, the median sentence was just 11 months.

Here's where conservatives will say "Well you have to separate those numbers, he isn't really claiming 200 were charged, only that there were more than 400 suspects"...or something similar...It's all about creating an impression and implying that since half of 400 is 200 when in reality it's only been 39 who have been convicted? Less than honest....

Let's look at some of those "terrorists" who have been convicted....For example, the prosecution of 20 men, most of them Iraqis, in a Pennsylvania truck-licensing scam with some of those charged are counted in the stats -- even knowing the entire group was absolved of ties to terrorism in 2001. More than a dozen defendants were acquitted or had their charges dismissed, including three Moroccan men in Detroit whose convictions were tossed out in September after the Justice Department admitted prosecutorial misconduct.

In the end, most cases on the Justice Department list turned out to have no connection to terrorism at all.

They involve such people as Hassan Nasrallah, a Dearborn, Mich., man convicted of credit-card fraud who has the same name as the leader of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group also known as the Party of God. Abdul Farid of High Point, N.C., was arrested on a false tip that he was sending money to the Taliban and was later deported after admitting he lied on a loan application. Moeen Islam Butt, a Pakistani jewelry-kiosk employee in Pennsylvania, spent eight months in jail before being deported on marriage-fraud and immigration charges.

And there is the case of Francois Guagni, a French national who made the mistake of illegally crossing the Canadian border on Sept. 14, 2001, with box cutters in his possession. It turned out that Guagni used the knives in his job as a drywall installer. He was deported in March 2003 after pleading guilty to unlawfully entering the country.

Enaam Arnaout, director of the Illinois-based Benevolence International Foundation, who was indicted amid great fanfare in October 2002 for allegedly helping to funnel money and equipment to al Qaeda operatives on three continents. Ashcroft called the group a source of "terrorist blood money" that was used to "fund the work of evil." The charity was shut down.
Less than a year later, prosecutors dropped six of the seven charges against Arnaout, and he pleaded guilty to a single count of racketeering for funding fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya. During a sentencing hearing in August 2003, U.S. District Judge Suzanne B. Conlon told prosecutors they had "failed to connect the dots" and said there was no evidence that Arnaout "identified with or supported" terrorism.

There's alot more information on this in the source of this article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100381.html