Al-Qaida ‘Warrior’ Gets Life for Killing 2 U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan

A Saudi-born follower of al-Qaida who was convicted in March of killing two U.S. service members in Afghanistan received a life seentence Friday in a New York courtroom.

But Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun, a self-described al-Qaida “warrior,” refused to attend his sentencing.

“I can’t think of a more serious crime,” U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan said as he announced the sentence for Harun in a Brooklyn, N.Y., courtroom where a monitor showing the entrance to Harun’s cell rested near his lawyers. Harun also had refused to attend his trial last year.

The judge rejected Harun’s claim that he was more a soldier than a terrorist, saying Harun wanted to kill “dozens or maybe hundreds of Americans” and those from other nationalities, as well . . .

A jury last March convicted Harun after prosecutors said he confessed while in Italian custody that he threw a grenade and shot at an American military unit in a 2003 ambush that killed Army Pvt. Jerod Dennis, of Antlers, Okla., and Air Force Airman Ray Losano, of Del Rio, Texas. (Read more from “Al-Qaida ‘Warrior’ Gets Life for Killing 2 U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan” HERE)

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