A US citizen of Lebanese background that is. Reuters
DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen of Lebanese origin has been sentenced by a United Arab Emirates court to 18 months in prison on terrorist charges relating to Israel and Iraq, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Naji Hamdan was found guilty of funding and supporting terrorism and having links with Iraqi militant group Ansar al-Sunna because he entered an Islamist website and donated money to an Islamic charity, Gulf News said.
Hamdan will serve only four months in prison before being deported, since he has already spent 14 months in detention. The maximum penalty for the charges is 15 years in jail.
Prosecutors had said the money Hamdan donated was used in actions against Israel.
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