New York Bomb Plotter Gets 16 Year Term in Sting
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Jose Pimentel, an alleged al-Qaeda sympathizer who pleaded guilty following a police sting operation to trying to build pipe bombs to detonate in New York City, was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Pimentel, 29, also known as Muhammad Yusuf, was sentenced today to a term he had agreed to under a deal with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. He is to serve 16 years in prison with five years of post-release supervision for a single count of attempted criminal possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism, according to Vance’s office.