Man sentenced for transferring money to bin Laden bounty hunter [View All]

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Associated Press


OAKLAND, Calif. - The owner of a Hayward pizza parlor was sentenced to four months of home detention and a $5,000 fine Friday, after pleading guilty to illegally transferring money to a bounty hunter on a rogue mission to kill Osama bin Ladin.

Between 2002 and 2003, Noor Alocozy, 41, transferred $1 million, some of which reached Jonathan "Jack" Idema, a jailed American mercenary accused of running his own private interrogation camp in Afghanistan, according to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Idema, a former Green Beret who claimed to be working on a counterterrorism mission with the American government, was a client of Alocozy's money-transfer business, Noor Money Transfer, which operated out of his Liberty Pizza restaurant, said agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice.

Idema is now jailed in an Afghan prison after being convicted last September of charges that included running a private torture camp. <snip>

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