Al-Qaeda Suspect Gets Life in Prison for Jail Attack
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Suspected al-Qaeda leader Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who plunged a comb into the eye of a jail guard in 2000 while awaiting trial in New York on terrorism charges, was resentenced today to life in prison.
Salim, 52, a Sudanese-born Iraqi, pleaded guilty to stabbing officer Louis Pepe with a plastic comb on Nov. 1, 2000, as part of a larger plot to attack his lawyers and force a judge to assign him new counsel. At the time, he was awaiting trial as an alleged planner of a terrorist conspiracy that included the 1998 terror attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.