TEMPO.CO, New York - An American Muslim was charged 16 years in prison on Tuesday for attempting to make a pipe bomb. Jose Pimentel, a 29-year-old Dominican-born U.S. citizen, was arrested in 2011 after a police informant secretly recorded meetings with him as he bought bomb materials and read online instructions on how to assemble them.
Pimentel was accused of plotting to attack police stations, post offices and military personnel in and around New York City.
In a statement on Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said Pimentel had a personal website that advocated violence against U.S. citizens and government agencies and that had links to bomb-making instructions.
The components seized by the New York Police Department were detailed in a step-by-step bomb-making guide published by Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine, Vance said.
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