Al-Qaida Operative Gets Life Sentence for Killing Soldiers, Bomb Plot

A man convicted of participating in a 2003 attack on American soldiers in Afghanistan that killed two people and plotting to bomb a U.S. embassy in West Africa was sentenced to life in prison Friday. Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, who is known by the nom de guerre Spin Ghul, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn. Harun refused to attend his sentencing hearing, as he had previously refused to attend his trial. An audio and video link was set up between...

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