N.Y. accountant sentenced to 18 years in prison for aiding al Qaeda

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Source: Reuters

N.Y. accountant sentenced to 18 years in prison for aiding al Qaeda

By Nate Raymond and Bernard Vaughan
NEW YORK | Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:56pm EDT

(Reuters) - An accountant who scoped out the New York Stock Exchange as a potential target for al Qaeda was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison.

Sabirhan Hasanoff, a dual U.S. and Australian citizen living in New York, provided financial support to al Qaeda and conducted surveillance of the New York Stock Exchange in 2008, prosecutors said. He also sought to travel overseas to receive military training to fight Americans, they said.

U.S. intelligence officials said in June that Hasanoff's arrest was indirectly the result of monitoring by the U.S. National Security Agency of a "known extremist in Yemen."

Hasanoff, who had previously worked at accounting firms including KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, pleaded guilty in June 2012, nearly two years after he was arrested on charges of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-usa-security-sentencing-idUSBRE98T0SA20130930

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1. Responding to mark and look into later.

Looks interesting.