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November 27, 2007

Somali Immigrant Pleads Guilty To Plotting With al-Qaida Terrorist To Bomb Ohio Shopping Mall

Topics: Terrorism

Isn't this an example of what I was warning about in my earlier post?

A judge on Tuesday sentenced a Somali immigrant to 10 years in prison for plotting to blow up an Ohio shopping mall with a man later convicted of being an al-Qaida terrorist.

Nuradin Abdi, a cell phone salesman before his arrest, will be deported to Somalia after serving the sentence. U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley imposed the sentence as part of a plea deal Abdi agreed to in July.

In a 20-minute statement to the court, Abdi's attorney Mahir Sherif said his client apologized to the people of the United States, the people of Ohio and the Muslim community.

''He apologizes for the things he thought about and the things he talked about and the crimes he pleaded guilty to,'' Sherif said. ''He wants to make it very, very clear that he does not hate America.''

Posted by Abdul at November 27, 2007 8:17 PM

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