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Times Square attempted Bomber gets Life Sentence
Posted: Oct 5, 2010 9:42 AM by Nichole Larkey
NEW YORK (AP) - The man who plotted to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison.
A judge gave Faisal Shahzad a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The bomb he had packed into the back of an SUV sputtered, injuring no one in a Times Square packed with tourists.
Calling himself a Muslim solider, a defiant Shahzad pleaded guilty in June to 10 terrorism and weapons counts.
Shahzad, a former budget analyst from Connecticut and a
Pakistani immigrant, was arrested two days after his May 1 attempted bombing.
He told the judge a defeat of the United States is imminent.
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