Confessed Islamic Jihad Figure Given 25-Year Sentence

A U.S. federal judge Friday sentenced a confessed terrorist to 25 years in prison for various activities, including announcing al-Qaida's claim of responsibility for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Adel Abdul Bary was extradited from London to the United States in 2012. He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to threaten to kill U.S. citizens. U.S. prosecutors said Bary led the London cell of Egypt's Islamic Jihad terrorist group and also...

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