A Lebanese court on Friday
convicted two Lebanese nationals and their Syrian accomplice for planning to
blow up a tunnel in New York City for Al-Qaeda, US daily The Washington Post reported
Friday.
The newspaper added that
Assem Hammoud was convicted to a two year prison sentence, which he has already
served.
The other two men were
sentenced in absentia to life in prison.
“The FBI said the plotters
planned to bomb and flood Hudson River train tunnels” between New York and New
Jersey in 2006, The Washington
Post added.
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