Sentencing Underway For Nj Man In Terror Case

A sentencing hearing has begun for the first of two New Jersey men who pleaded guilty to trying to join an armed Islamic group in Somalia in order to wage holy war against non-Muslims. An attorney for Mohamed Alessa, of North Bergen, is arguing his client was more a misguided teenager manipulated by an undercover New York Police Department officer than a hardened would-be terrorist.

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