The Pennsylvania moonbat who tried to connect with Al Qaeda on the internet, in a plot to blow up US oil pipelines, has been convicted: U.S. man convicted of pipeline, energy attack plan.

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man was convicted on Friday of plotting to blow up U.S. oil pipelines and energy installations and of attempting to enlist al Qaeda militants on the Internet to help carry out his plan.

A federal jury of six women and six men took a little more than an hour to convict Michael Curtis Reynolds, 49, on those charges and of possessing a hand grenade. He faces a maximum 57 1/2 years in prison.

The government accused Reynolds, from Wilkes-Barre, of scheming to attack the Alaska and Transcontinental pipelines and other energy installations to prompt a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

Another one of Reynolds’ objectives: he wanted to topple President Bush.

Seyler described e-mails in which Reynolds, a divorced father of three who called himself “Fritz,” said he wanted to blow up the Williams Refinery in Wyoming because he said it had lax security and was in a remote location that would enable the attackers to escape.

Reynolds wrote that his planned attack would help topple U.S. President George W. Bush.

Security was of the utmost importance, Seyler told Reynolds in the e-mails during late November and early December 2005. “You will not cause us to reveal our secrets to the American agents,” he wrote, in e-mails shown to the court.

In a message sent on December 4, 2005, Reynolds referred to senior al Qaeda figure Hamza Rabia as a “beloved leader.” Rabia was killed by security forces in Pakistan a few days earlier.