[Reuters] Christine Kearney - Javed Iqbal, 45, a Pakistani citizen living in New York, was sentenced to more than five and a half years in prison on Thursday for broadcasting the Hizbullah television channel Al Manar and selling it to U.S. customers. "He was, in a very real sense, Hizbullah's man in New York City," prosecutor Eric Snyder said during the sentencing hearing, adding Hizbullah used the channel to recruit new members.
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