A U.S. court sentenced a student from Saudi Arabia to 60 years in jail for killing his Jewish friend. Monday’s sentencing in Houston was a plea bargain. In a statement, Mohammed Ali Alayed, 23, apologized for the August 2003 killing of Ariel Sellouk but did not explain why he did it.
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