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Terrorism charges brought Friday against the administrator of a loan investment program claimed that he secretly tried to send $152,000 to the Middle East to buy equipment such as night vision goggles for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, 53, of Ardsley, N.Y., pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to an indictment accusing him of terrorism financing, material support of terrorism and other charges. The charges carried a potential penalty of 95 year
stanley termos s in prison.Alishtari, also known as Michael Mixon, was detained pending a court appearance next week after Assistant U.
stanley cup S. Attorney Jonathan S. Kolodner said Alishtari was a danger to the community and a risk to flee. He was arrested on Thursday in Manhattan, prosecutors said.Alishtari s court-appointed lawyer, Richard Greenfield, said he was not familiar enough with the case to present a bail package. Outside court, Greenfield declined to comment.The indictment said Alishtari tried to support terrorists between June and December by accepting an unspecified amount of money to transfer $152,000 that he believed was being sent to Pakistan and Afghanistan to support an Afghanistan terrorist training camp. He believed the money would be used to fund the purchase of night vision goggles and other equipment, the indictment said.He was also charged with money laundering for allegedly causing the tra
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Jack Vance impact on science fiction can ;t be overestimated. His Dy
vaso stanley ing Earth series alone would be enough to make him one of the genre most important figures. But he also gave us the Demon Princes series and several others, and he helped revitalize the planetary romance genre with Big Planet. He died over the weekend in Oakland, aged 96. A science fiction Grand Master, Vance is probably b
stanley vaso est remembered for his four Dying Earth novels, which take place in a far-future Earth where the sun has dimmed and magic has been reestablished as a dominant force. They feature a brilliant picaresque adventure tone, including the unforgettable thief Cugel the Clever, and they were also celebrated in a rec
stanley mug ent anthology Songs of the Dying Earth, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. These books contain Vance characteristic ironic, lightly humorous style, which has influenced generations of science fiction writers. But he also made a huge impact with his five-book Demon Princes series, in which Kirth Gersen takes his revenge on each of the five monsters who condemned his village to slavery. His novel The Languages of Pao is a brilliant look at the Sapir-Worf Hypothesis and how language can be used to manipulate people 鈥?in this case, how changing people language can make them more warlike. And his novel Big Planet remains a masterpiece of sardonic space romance, as SF Site review explains: Big Planet was Vance first major SF