Have fun in the pokey, jerkwad
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Brooklyn bookstore owner who pleaded guilty to conspiring to transfer funds to militant groups in Afghanistan and Chechnya was sentenced on Monday to 13 years in prison.
Militants? Al Reuters at their best.
Abdulrahman Farhane, 52, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty in November to one count of conspiring to launder money and one count of lying to federal agents.
During the sentencing, prosecutors said after the September 11 attacks Farhane met frequently with Mohamed Alanssi, an FBI informant, and the two discussed sending money to jihadists.
Farhane came to be "an important link in the chain of money flowing from America to terrorists overseas," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer G. Rodgers said.
He will probably be the next cause celeb for the Left.
Prosecutors said that Farhane, who moved to America from Morocco in 1987, stocked his store with anti-American books and that his address book read like "a Who's Who of terrorist financiers in the United States."
But, no, don't worry about Islamic terrorists. They can't possibly be in America, right? Don't profile, don't investigate, stop the terrorist surveillance program immediately.
