THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Terrorist Gets Soft Sentence for Plot to Bomb Targets Including Army-Navy Game, Pride Parade, and Nuclear Plants.
Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman has been sentenced for planning mass casualty terror attacks, with concerns raised over the adequacy of his prison term.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman, a 20-year-old based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to just 20 to 40 months in prison for plotting mass casualty attacks and building explosives. IMPACT: The district attorney’s office expressed concerns that the sentence is too lenient, given the severity of the planned attacks. Abdul-Rahman planned to bomb high-profile targets such as the Valley Forge Military Academy, the Army-Navy game, the Philadelphia Pride Parade, multiple nuclear power plants, and a historically black university. He was initially facing 24 to 48 years in prison. DETAIL: Abdul-Rahman was arrested at 17 after authorities discovered his communications with al-Qaeda linked terrorists in…Open