Southern California Islamic Terrorist Sentenced to 22 Years

Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:40:48 pm PDT

One of the four Muslims indicted in that plot to attack Jewish and US military locations in Southern California has been sentenced to 22 years.

SANTA ANA – A Muslim convert and former prison inmate was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Monday for conspiring to wage war on the United States – including plotting terrorist attacks on local military sites and Jewish centers and synagogues – in a plan one prosecutor said was intended to “kill as many people as possible.”

Levar Haley Washington, 30, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty in December to being part of a domestic terrorist ring run from a California prison.

Authorities say the four men in Jami’yyat Ul-Islam Is-Shaheeh, or JIS, wanted make a political statement by killing civilians at local temples during Jewish holidays and attacking military bases, and had plans to attack the Israeli consultate in Los Angeles and El Al Israel Airlines at LAX.

Previously at LGF:
’We Are Only Servants of Allah’
Islamic Convert Had Military Sites List
Islamic Converts Had ‘Jihadist’ Materials