Pakistani Man Gets 140 Months For Plot

UPI ^ | 10/17/2002 | National Desk

[thatdewd]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge sentenced a 19-year-old Pakistani immigrant to 140 months in prison Thursday for plotting to blow up electrical power substations and a National Guard armory in south Florida. Imran Mandhai had pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas to one count of conspiracy to damage and destroy property with fire and explosives. Co-defendant Shueb Mossa Jokhan, 24, was sentenced Oct. 4 to 58 months for his role in the plot. "This case shows we will not tire or rest until we weed out and bring to justice those who would harm the United States," U.S. Attorney Marcos Jimenez said. Mandhai recruited Jokhan and conspired with him to bomb electrical power stations and a National Guard armory as part of a jihad mission in the United States...

[thatdewd]

Good Job, Florida. Looks like the Moose is not Loose down there.

[The KG9 Kid]

140 years.

Imagine hearing that as your sentence.

[Magnum44]

Is it months or years? The title says one thing, the article another.

[dighton]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

Small mistake here: your headline should read "months," not "years."

[Between the Lines]

A federal judge sentenced a 19-year-old Pakistani immigrant to 140 months in prison

Months or years?

[thefactor]

um, the title says years, but the article says months. big difference.

[dighton]

"Months" in the original headline.

[thatdewd]

OOPS, wishful thinking on my part. Is there any way to fix the post title?

[LibWhacker]

Not hard to see why you were confused. I wonder why the judge didn't just say "12 years," or "11.67 years," or some such? Don't think I've ever heard of such a long sentence handed down in terms of months.

[FixitGuy]

Even then, this sentence is not long enough.

There will probably be even easier methods to blow stuff up when he gets out and he'll have learned 12 more years worth of hatred as well!

[gridlock]

Any chance this turd can be released after 140 months directly onto the entry stairs of an airliner bound back to Pakistan?

[American Soldier]

Where he can get a new passport and return here?

Deportations are not the answers.

Having people mysteriously disappear is the answer.

[GeekDejure]

Having people mysteriously disappear is the answer.

Nope. . . that doesn't work!!! I try to mysteriously disappear every time the hooker wants to collect her $1000.00, but she can run faster than I can push my wheelchair!!! ;-))

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This sucks. He's sentenced to 12 years, he'll be out in 6 or 7. What ever happened to that military tribunal thing that was all the rage a year ago? If this guy isn't an enemy combatant, then who the hell is?

[mikeIII]

...he'll have learned 12 more years worth of hatred as well!

.. and recruit some more to his cause in the fertile prison grounds.

[greggery_peccary]

"This sucks. He's sentenced to 12 years, he'll be out in 6 or 7."

In the federal system, a prisoner has to serve 85% of his sentence before being eligible for supervised release, unless the sentence in a "mandatory minimum", in which case the prisoner has to serve the entire sentence.

[Lion's Cub]

fyi

Arrest story here:

Pakistani Plotted to Bomb Florida Power Plants, Officials Say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/653499/posts

[Catspaw]

He'll serve a little under 12 years (119 months) in the federal prison system if he's a good boy, 140 months if he's not.

[Aaron_A]

Hopefully there is a plane seat in his future after the 140 months have elapsed.