Former University of Manitoba student Muhanad Mahmoud al Farekh, convicted by a jury last September of conspiring to kill American soldiers in a bomb plot, tried to convince a federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., Tuesday that he was now opposed to violence. But U.S. federal prosecutor Richard Tucker told the court that al Farekh, 32, a U.S. citizen born in Houston, Texas, was “unshakably committed” to violent jihad and should be sentenced to life in prison, Reuters reported. Al Farekh did not give his grandmother, with whom he had been living, any notice he was leaving the country. Forensic investigators later found 18 latent fingerprints matching al Farekh on adhesive tape used to bind together the undetonated explosives, prosecutors said. Al Farekh was captured in Pakistan and brought to the U.S. in 2015.

Source: National Post March 13, 2018 23:15 UTC