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B'KLYN BRIDGE QAEDA: 20 YRS.
New York Post ^ | 10/29/03 | Reuters

Posted on 10/29/2003 12:30:47 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:17:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

October 29, 2003 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Iyman Faris, an Ohio truck driver who now denies casing the Brooklyn Bridge to see if it could be destroyed, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for providing support to al Qaeda. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema handed down the maximum sentence possible after rejecting a request by Faris, 34, and his lawyer to withdraw the guilty plea he had entered May 1.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; brinkema; faris; iymanfaris; jihadinamerica; ksm

1 posted on 10/29/2003 12:30:47 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
I am glad he's going to prison.He will just get more radical and I hope we track him when he gets out.
2 posted on 10/29/2003 12:33:32 AM PST by MEG33
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To: MEG33; Dog; Angelus Errare
I hope he lands in a prison near NYC, where some prisoners undoubtedly had loved ones who died on 9/11. And I hope all the prisoners know exactly why he's in there.
3 posted on 10/29/2003 6:15:13 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop
Good thinking!
4 posted on 10/29/2003 6:18:53 AM PST by MEG33
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To: Coop
I hope he lands in a prison near NYC, where some prisoners undoubtedly had loved ones who died on 9/11. And I hope all the prisoners know exactly why he's in there.

Could not agree more, oh and one more thing a pork only diet.
5 posted on 10/29/2003 6:19:50 AM PST by RiflemanSharpe (An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
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