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World Judge Adel Abdel Salam Gomaa of Egypt's emergency state security court said investigations had proved the group intended "to strike Egypt's economy, destroy the bonds between its people and create chaos and instability throughout the country." The court sentenced the men -- who included Lebanese, Palestinians, Egyptians and one Sudanese -- to jail terms from six months to life. Some were convicted in absentia. Among those tried was Sami Chehab, also named as Mohamed Youssef Mansour Ahmed, who received a jail term of 15 years. He was present in court, placed with the others inside a cage. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last year confirmed Chehab was a member of the group, a political and military organization that is now part of Lebanon's government, but denied the man committed any crime. Nasrallah said Chehab was only helping equip Palestinians in their fight against Israel. Chehab's lawyer, Emile Rahme who is a Lebanese lawmaker close to Hezbollah, described the verdict as "unjust and cruel." "This verdict can be described as a politicized verdict. It cannot be described as a judicial verdict. If the court stayed away from politics, then it would have ruled my client innocent," Rahme said in a statement faxed to Reuters in Beirut. STRAINED EGYPT-HEZBOLLAH RELATIONS Defense attorney Montasser Zayat said three of those convicted received life sentences, which he said in Egyptian law was equivalent to 25 years. "This verdict is cruel and does not fit with the documents put forward," Zayat said. No appeal would be possible but President Hosni Mubarak would be able to reduce any of the sentences if he chose, he said. Rights groups say Egypt has used "exceptional" courts like emergency and military courts to secure guilty verdicts and point to swift and often harsh sentences passed by the courts against Islamist militants in the 1990s. 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