CHICAGO, Sept. 30, 2008
35-Year Sentence For Mall Grenade Plotter
A Young Convert To Islam Planned To Attack A Shopping Center In Chicago
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Shown in a courtroom artist's drawing is Derrick Shareef as he appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez on Dec. 8, 2006, in Chicago. (AP)
Derrick Shareef must serve 30 of those years - with five off for good behavior - unless he can get an appeals court to reduce the sentence.
He was arrested in 2006 on charges of scheming to use weapons of mass destruction at the Cherryvale Mall in the northern Illinois city of Rockford.
Federal Judge David Coar said Tuesday he didn't believe Shareef was evil. But he said people could have been severely hurt if federal agents hadn't broken up the plot.
Shareef was a lone wolf, with no ties to any terrorist organization. He never acquired any grenades, according to reports from CBS station WBBM in Chicago.
Shareef describes himself as a devout Muslim who once admired Osama bin Laden but has now realized violence is wrong.
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- Shareef describes himself as a devout Muslim who once admired Osama bin Laden but has now realized violence is wrong."
LOL what brought about that realization? the fact he will spend at least 30 years in jail or some change of heart, or it was just a stock BS line given to him by his attorney? - Reply to this comment
- Federal Judge David Coar said Tuesday he didn''t believe Shareef was evil.
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Yeah this guy sounds like just the type of guy I want dating my daughter. - Reply to this comment
- "I have found allah... I must now kill... "
WAKE UP WORLD, THIS HAS GONE PAST STUPID... !!!
Posted by checkthepast at 08:28 AM : Oct 01, 2008
Oh it went past stupid years ago - we''re currently at anencephalic! - Reply to this comment
- Don''''''''t be suprised if this happens...
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So? I would have voted for Hillary anyway. I''d rather have her than old a$$ McVain the oil baron and his ventriloquist dummy Palin. - Reply to this comment
- Blood cults, child sacrifice and infidel murder are not covered by the ''freedom of religion'' clause.
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- "I have found allah... I must now kill... "
WAKE UP WORLD, THIS HAS GONE PAST STUPID... !!! - Reply to this comment
- 35 years for plotting. In CA, one DWI driver was sentenced to 6 years for killing a human being. Another was sentenced to 18 years for killing 4 people while DWI. But plotting gets one 35 years? Don''t understand the Judicial system at all. Killing someone is sort of okay but plotting is awful.
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- Islam, Religion of Piece. There''s a piece of an arm over there, a piece of a leg over here....
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- He didn''t believe he was evil? Maybe if he had tossed a few grenades into the courtroom.
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- judge Coar didn''t believe this numbnuts is evil?....what is he then, a dammed BOY SCOUT?
Hizzonner the liberal twit probably feels the jerk had a bad childhood....or some othe excuse....was the judge raised on Doc Spock''s book? wouldn''t surprise me. - Reply to this comment
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