……..convicted last year of passing information on ship movements to Al Qaeda, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Oh, just to Al Qaeda, Ok, then, ten years, some off for good behavior, and he can return to terrorism quite soon.

On the other hand, Pollard got life for giving info to Israel. Bad and criminal as that was, unlike Al Qaeda, the info was not to be used to wage war on the United States.