Man who pleaded guilty in NYC airport terror plot gets 15 years

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A man who pleaded guilty last summer in a plot to blow up fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.

Judge Dora L. Irizarry, who presides over the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, handed down the sentence against Abdel Nur, one of four people charged in the plot. Nur, a native of Guyana, pleaded guilty on June 29, 2010, to providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy.

Three other defendants had pleaded not guilty in the plot. Two of those men have been tried and convicted.

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