NYC pipe bomb suspect Jose Pimentel pleads guilty to terrorism charge

NYC pipe bomb suspect Jose Pimentel pleads guilty to terrorism charge

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Pimentel's lawyers said he pleaded guilty to the charge to avoid a life

sentence.

 

NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers for a New York City man who pleaded guilty to a

terrorism charge in a pipe bomb plot says he took the plea to avoid the

possibility of life in prison.

 

Jose Pimentel had been charged with building homemade bombs to attack

soldiers, police or even the George Washington Bridge. He entered the plea

Wednesday to attempted criminal possession of a weapon as a crime of

terrorism.

 

Authorities call the case a dramatic example of the threat of homegrown,

one-person terrorism plots.

 

Pimentel's lawyers have portrayed it as an example of overzealous policing

since 9/11. While Pimentel admitted guilt, one of his lawyers says "the

question that will not be answered, at least not in a court of law, is who

exactly is recruiting whom in this war, this so-called war on terror."

 

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