New York bomb plotter gets life in prison

NEW YORK: A US court sentenced a New York man to life in prison Friday for plotting to turn himself into a suicide bomb in the city's subway as revenge for American attacks in Afghanistan.

Brooklyn federal court sentenced Adis Medunjanin, 34, for his role in the 2009 conspiracy, which he entered into with two other youth who prosecutors say were angered by American foreign policy.

According to prosecutors, Medunjanin and his friends were "within days" from enacting a bloodbath in one of the most serious plots since September 11, 2001.

At trial earlier this year, prosecutors described how Medunjanin and his two former New York high school friends planned to bomb either the subway, Times Square, or another packed location.

The Bosnia-born Medunjanin, whose family fled to the United States during the war with Serbia in the 1990s, was also convicted of conspiring to murder US military personnel abroad, getting military training from al-Qaeda, and attempting to commit terrorism across national boundaries, among other charges.