José Padilla Sentenced To Seventeen Years For Maybe Aiding Islamic Terrorists

José Padilla who, like any other Brooklynite, really, likes to give blow jobs to terrorists (or something like that) has been sentenced to seventeen years of four months in prison by a Miami judge:

Jose Padilla, a Brooklyn-born convert to Islam who became one of the first Americans designated “an enemy combatant,” was sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison by a federal judge in Miami on Tuesday for his conviction on charges that he conspired to help Islamic terrorists around the world.

The judge also sentenced Adham Amin Hassoun, one of Mr. Padilla’s two co-defendants, to 15 years and eight months. The second co-defendant, Kifah Wael Jayyousi, received 12 years and eight months. All three men were convicted last August of conspiracy to murder and kidnap people in a foreign country, and of two lesser counts of material support.

Padilla had been held in isolation at military brig in South Carolina for over three years. And then there was this little misunderstanding:

The government’s main evidence against Mr. Padilla, a former Chicago gang member with a lengthy criminal record, was an application form that prosecutors said he had filled out to attend an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 2000. Defense lawyers argued that Mr. Padilla had traveled to the Middle East to study Islam and Arabic, not to participate in a violent Islamic jihad.

The two are easily confused. But your eyebrows are kind of scary. So…

Padilla Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison [NY Times]