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theatrical sort of way of trying to present charges.”Nevertheless, after the conclusion of the Virginia Paintball Networktrials, prosecutors tried Al-Timimi for encouraging the Network to wagejihad in India and the U.S. On July 14, 2005, Al-Timimi was sentenced tolife plus seventy years, essentially for one conversation. David Cole ofGeorgetown University said that the judgment against Al-Timimi was“overly harsh” and that the government’s case “raised questions about theviolation of First Amendment free speech rights.”References:“Free Ali Al-Timimi,” website, various dates, http://freeali.wordpress.com/“Ali al-Tamimi [sic],” Wikipedia, n.d., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_al-TamimiKevin Bohn, “Muslim lecturer indicted in terror case,” CNN, September 23,2004,http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/23/lecturer.indicted/index.html?eref=sitesearchAref-Hossain Case, The. Yassin Aref was a Kurdish refugee from Iraqwho was the imam of a mosque in Albany, New York. The governmentclaimed to have become suspicious of Aref’s “ideology” for some reasonand decided to entrap him with a sting that used an agent provocateur,Shahed Hussein, who was called “Malik” for the sting. Malik, awaitingsentencing for his own crimes, was promised a sentencing break if hecooperated with the government to get Aref.First Malik, acting for the government, entrapped a member ofAref’s mosque, Mohammed Hossain, into accepting a loan so that Hossaincould improve his rental properties. (The government conceded that it hadno concern that Hossain was a terrorist; it was only using Hossain as a wayto get to the real target, Aref.) Malik told Hossain (but not Aref) that themoney for the loan came from the sale of a missile to a terrorist group.B-5