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Massachusetts: Qaeda Conspirator Is Sentenced

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 13, 2012

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An American citizen convicted of conspiring to help Al Qaeda was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 17 and a half years in prison. Tarek Mehanna, 29, of Sudbury, was found guilty in December of traveling to Yemen in 2004 to seek terrorism training with the aim of going to Iraq to fight Americans. When that failed, Mr. Mehanna returned to the United States and promoted violent jihad online. He was sentenced on four terror-related charges and three counts of lying to the authorities.

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