Man who plotted to bomb New York synagogues sentenced to 10 years

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Source: Reuters

By Joseph Ax
NEW YORK | Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - An Algerian immigrant to the United States convicted under a rarely invoked New York state terror statute of plotting to blow up synagogues and churches in Manhattan was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison.

Ahmed Ferhani, 27, pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy as a crime of terrorism, related weapons charges and other crimes. He admitted to conspiring with another man, Mohamed Mamdouh, to bomb synagogues in retaliation for what he viewed as Jewish mistreatment of Muslims throughout the world.

"This defendant walked far across the bridge to and from terrorism," prosecutor Gary Galperin said. "Now he must stand and watch it burn."

Ferhani, arrested in May 2011 after he and Mamdouh discussed their plans with an undercover New York police detective, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus that he was not the dangerous individual described by authorities.

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1. "Jewish mistreatment of Muslims throughout the world.

A village in Algeria will regain its idiot after he serves his sentence and is deported.

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2. Blaming all Jews for "mistreatment of Muslims" is just as dumb as blaming all Muslims for terrorism.

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