Conservative Culture

He doesn’t hate America. Really. He’s also very sorry! Really. Yeah right. He loves America enough to go out of the country for training and is willing to put bombs in malls. Nice guy. Hope not to see him when he’s free. In the meantime a Columbus resident, another of three, will have his case held in January, 2009. Wow, talk abut speedy justice.

[AP: Picture and content] COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Somali immigrant was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for plotting to blow up an Ohio shopping mall with a man later convicted of being an al-Qaida terrorist.

Nuradin Abdi, a cell phone salesman before his arrest, pleaded guilty in July to conspiring to provide material support for terrorists. He will be deported to Somalia after serving the federal sentence.

In a 20-minute statement to the court, Abdi’s attorney Mahir Sherif said his client apologized to the people of the United States, the people of Ohio and the Muslim community. He said Abdi regretted that his conviction might lead to problems for other Muslims.

“He apologizes for the things he thought about and the things he talked about and the crimes he pleaded guilty to,” Sherif said. “He wants to make it very, very clear that he does not hate America.”

Prosecutors said Abdi made threatening comments about the unspecified shopping mall during a meeting with two other suspected terrorists on Aug. 8, 2002, at a coffee shop in suburban Columbus.