Terrorist or Political Prisoner? Lebanese Man Speaks Out After Release from US Prison for Alleged Hezbollah Support
Rania Khalek Dispatches - A podcast by Rania Khalek

Listen to the full interview on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-audio-or-us-85690029 In 2003, Mohamad Youssef Hammoud, a Lebanese-American, was sentenced to 155 years in prison on allegations of "providing material support" to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah with funds garnered from cigarette smuggling. Characterized by prosecutors as an “enemy combatant” and “terrorist financier,” he was the first person in the United States to be charged for material support to an alleged t...