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A court has sentenced an American citizen to life in prison on charges of assisting Al Qaeda and financing terrorist activities in Iraq, according to a government statement released Thursday. The Interior Ministry said the American, Omar Rashad Khalil, 53, was recruited by Al Qaeda in Iraq in 2005. Mr. Khalil, an architectural engineer, is of Palestinian descent and entered Iraq in 2001, the ministry statement said. The ministry released excerpts from a confession it said Mr. Khalil made in which he is said to have admitted to receiving money from a Syrian man in the United Arab Emirates to pay for terrorist attacks. An American Embassy spokesman, Frank Finver, issued a statement saying that the embassy officials were aware of the reports. A court has sentenced an American citizen to life in prison on charges of assisting Al Qaeda and financing terrorist activities in Iraq, according to a government statement released Thursday. The Interior Ministry said the American, Omar Rashad Khalil, 53, was recruited by Al Qaeda in Iraq in 2005. Mr. Khalil, an architectural engineer, is of Palestinian descent and entered Iraq in 2001, the ministry statement said. The ministry released excerpts from a confession it said Mr. Khalil made, in which he is said to have admitted to receiving money from a Syrian man in the United Arab Emirates to pay for terrorist attacks. An American Embassy spokesman, Frank Finver, issued a statement saying that the embassy officials were aware of the reports.