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It’s going to be illuminating to see how things go at the sentencing of the leader of one of America’s biggest Muslim charities, Enaam M. Arnaout, who pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Chicago to charges of illegally funneling humanitarian donations to rebel fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya to pay for military supplies. The case against Arnaout, who headed the Benevolence International Foundation, was based primarily on allegations that he was funneling money to Osama bin Laden’s terror network. But prosecutors dropped those charges after evidentiary rulings went again them in certain aspects of the case. On the single felony count to which Arnaout pled, he could still face a reported 20 years in prison.
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