Pakistani-American sentenced for machinations bombings
WASHINGTON: A Pakistani-American was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison for machinations attacks on subway stations around the US capital with populace he hypothetical were al Qaeda affiliates.
Farooque Ahmed, a naturalized US resident who lived in the Virginia outer edge of Washington, admitted photographing stations in 2010 to plan concurrent bombard attacks.The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to give fabric hold up to a chosen terrorist association and collecting in order to help in preparation a radical attack, US officials said.
A central judge also sentenced Ahmed to 50 years of supervised release after penitentiary, as part of a appeal accord sandwiched between Ahmed's lawyers and prosecutors.
Ahmed was wedged in a sting operation by US establishment, who said that "at no time was the public in hazard all the way through this examination and that the FBI was aware of Ahmed's activities from before the supposed effort began and intimately monitored his behavior until his arrest."
Ahmed was arrested in October 2010. Authorities said he had studied security operations at subway stations, took photographs, and provided diagrams to the fake al Qaeda affiliates.
Ahmed also "provided suggestions as to where explosives should be placed on trains in Metrorail stations in Arlington to kill the most people in simultaneous attacks planned for 2011," the US Department of Justice said in a statement.