A 35-year-old Virgina man who thought he was assisting members of al-Qaeda plan bombings of the D.C. Metro system was sentenced on Monday to 23 years in prison followed by 50 years of supervised release.Farooque Ahmed pleaded guilty to charges which stemmed from his attempts to assist others that he believed were members of al-Qaeda, but were actually undercover FBI agents. Ahmed was arrested back in October after he handed over a thumb drive containing surveillance of a Metro system to an undercover agent he thought was affiliated with al-Qaeda.
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