Monday, February 9, 2004 · Last updated 11:49 a.m. PT
Portland, Ore.-area Muslims sentencedBy RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The final three members of a group of Muslim men from the Portland area who tried to enter Afghanistan to join the Taliban were each sentenced to prison time Monday.
They were among six men and one woman accused of conspiring to wage war on the United States.
Palestinian-born Maher Hawash, 39, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison. Ahmed Bilal, 25, was sentenced to 10 years and his brother, Muhammed, 23, was sent to prison for eight years.
Hawash, a former Intel software engineer, was the last of the group to be arrested. The Bilal brothers, among the original group of those arrested in October 2002, had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to help al-Qaida and the Taliban and to firearms charges.
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