MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press= ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) — A Pakistani-born computer technician pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to 23 years in prison for joining what he thought was an al-Qaeda plot to bomb the Washington region’s Metrorail system. Farooque Ahmed, 35, of northern Virginia, apologized for his actions at a plea hearing in U.S. District Court after his lawyer explained that Ahmed had succumbed to a government sting operation after being seduced by violent extremist rhetoric from a radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, and others. “All I can say is I’m sorry. It was the wrong action,” Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, told the judge in a low, halting voice….
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MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press= ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) — A Pakistani-born computer technician pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to 23 years in prison for joining what he thought was an al-Qaeda plot to bomb the Washington region’s Metrorail system. Farooque Ahmed, 35, of northern Virginia, apologized for his actions at a plea hearing in U.S. District Court after his lawyer explained that Ahmed had succumbed to a government sting operation after being seduced by violent extremist rhetoric from a radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, and others. “All I can say is I’m sorry. It was the wrong action,” Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, told the judge in a low, halting voice….
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