Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a 20-year-old Canadian citizen with a history of mental health and addiction problems was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for plotting a Times Square subway attack that was thwarted by what a prosecutor said was the work of FBI agents working around-the-clock.
Assistant U.S. Attorney George Turner had urged a life prison term, saying El Bahnasawy was not suffering from addictions when he pledged to strap an explosive to his body and kill as many people as possible.
“This was the real deal in the spring of 2016,” Turner said. “He chose Times Square and the subway system because they would be more crowded and more people would die.”
The mother of the Kuwaiti-born defendant arrested in May 2016 interrupted the announcement of the sentence by walking from the courtroom shouting: “This is a sick boy! This is crazy! This is not justice!”
Earlier, her son had asked the judge for a “second chance,” saying he was “nowhere near the mentality” he was when he became radicalized online.
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{Matzav.com}
And he got that dark tanned complexion from his lifetime in Canada’s cold climate