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Jail term for German Muslim who donated to Taliban
Apr 6, 2011, 13:15 GMT
Berlin - A German building worker who donated 2,160 euros (3,088 dollars) to an offshoot of the Taliban was jailed on Wednesday in Berlin for 22 months after being convicted of supporting a foreign terrorist group.
The 31-year-old Muslim said he did the wrong thing by handing money to an official of the German Taliban Mudjahedin or DTM movement to buy weapons. He told the Berlin court he no longer supported terrorism.
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