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Muslim Community Rallies Behind Sudbury Man Charged By The FBI
To friends and family, he was a maturing leader in the Muslim community, a passionate writer who was departing for Saudi Arabia for a career as a pharmacist. But the arrest of Tariq buy levitra Mehanna in November, as he was about Kamagra Gold to board a plane at Logan International Airport for his new life in the Middle East, has cast the 26-year-old in darker terms, as a liar supporting and associating with terrorists.
With an indictment in federal court, the Sudbury man faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison on charges of lying to investigators in a terrorism inquiry. But a community of supporters has rallied around him, questioning how Mehanna could have been ensnared in a federal case and whether he is being used a pawn in the FBI’s war on terrorism.
“They’re kind of painting the wrong picture of the Muslim community,” said S. Ahmad Zamanian of Houston, a friend of Mehanna’s. “Anyone who has met Tariq . . . would all tell you that this man is far removed from anyone’s definition of a terrorist.”
