The Staten Island home of Javed Iqbal, a Brooklyn businessman, has eight satellite dishes in the backyard. Source: New York Times
What a big week this was in our continuing fight to halt aid to Islamic terrorists with two convictions against Muslims who sought to do harm to America! The first was the conviction of 5 young Muslim men in New Jersey.
Today it was the guilty plea of a man who aided Hezbollah air their propaganda over TV stations within the U.S.
Another man, Saleh Elahwal, will be tried in January on similar charges. Iqbal will be sentenced on March 24th.
Igbal, who had lived the good life in America for twenty-five years, apparently had no loyalty to our country and the freedoms for which it stands:
"A New York City man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization by broadcasting Hezbollah television channel Al Manar to U.S. customers, federal prosecutors said.
In a plea deal, Javed Iqbal, 45, a Pakistani who moved to the United States more than 25 years ago, admitted that between about September 2005 and August 2006 he provided satellite transmission services through his Brooklyn-based company HDTV Ltd to Al Manar, in exchange for thousands of dollars payment.
Hezbollah, an Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group with a powerful guerrilla army, was designated by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization in 1997.
The U.S. Treasury branded Al Manar a terrorist organization in March 2006, saying it supported Hezbollah's fund-raising and recruitment activities.
Update 12/30/08: Lev L. Dassin, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announcedthat Saleh Elahwal, 55, of Matawan, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to providing material support to Hizballah, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. According to the count (Count Two) of the Superseding Indictment to which Elahwal pleaded guilty, and statements made during his guilty plea proceeding before United States District Judge Richard M. Berman
Update 6/8/09: Man who broadcasted Hezbollah TV in New York goes to prison
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