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U.S. Court Finds Indian Man Guilty of Trying to Sell Arms to Hizbullah
[An Nahar] An Indian citizen faces 75 years in jail in the United States after being found guilty by a Manhattan federal court of plotting to sell weapons to Hizbullah.Patrick Nayyar, 48, was found guilty of five counts related to the support he attempted to provide to Hizbullah after a week-long jury trial before U.S. district judge Robert Sweet. The five counts carry between five to 20 years imprisonment and in all Nayyar faces a maximum sentence of 75 years in prison when he is sentenced on Sept. 25. According to the indictment, the Indian man and his co-conspirator Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland agreed to provide arms, ammunition and vehicles to the Lebanese party between July and Sept. 2009. During several meetings with an undercover FBI informant, Nayyar and Mulholland provided him with a handgun, a box of ammunition and a pick-up truck. Last week, the jury listened to a recording of Nayyar agreeing to refer to Hizbullah as "the brothers." Prosecutors broadcast the conversation. "Listen, we don't have to keep repeating the name Hizbullah," the informant, a man named Ali, says to Nayyar, who then agrees. Mulholland, 45, is currently on the lam. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-30 |
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