LOS ANGELES: A man was jailed for 18 years yesterday for planning to attack a military recruiting centre with machine guns and grenades. Prosecutors thanked the local Muslim community for helping foil the plot.
Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, 34, was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release following his prison term after he pleaded guilty to the 2011 plot.
Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to murder US federal employees and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. He had faced up to 19 years in prison under a plea deal.
LONDON: Five people were jailed for more than 20 years in Britain yesterday for pretending to make a Hollywood blockbuster to secure millions of pounds in tax breaks from the government.
Bashar Al Issa, a 34-year-old former Iraqi national who is now British, orchestrated the scam and was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for cheating the public revenue. Aoife Madden, 31, a British and Irish actress, was sentenced to four years and eight months. Two other members of the scam, Pakistani national Tariq Hassan and Iraqi national Osama Al Baghdady, were given four-year terms, while another, Ian Sherwood, received three and a half years.
AFP
