Maryland man gets 25 years in military bomb plot

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON | Fri Apr 6, 2012 1:02pm EDT

(Reuters) - A judge sentenced a Baltimore man to serve 25 years in a federal prison on Friday for a plot to bomb a U.S. military recruiting center in Maryland as revenge for American policy towards Muslims.

Antonio Martinez, who recently converted to Islam and is also known as Muhammad Hussain, pleaded guilty in January to charges of plotting to detonate a car bomb outside the recruiting center in Catonsville, Maryland, in what had been an FBI-run undercover operation.

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[bahrbearian]

1. in what had been an FBI-run undercover operation.