FBI pulled the legs of car bomber in Portland

FBI pulled the legs of a young 23-year-old Somali American Mohamed Mohamud who had plotted to bomb the downtown square of Portland at Christmas time nzherald.co.nz - as a result, the individual has been sentenced to a prison term of 30-years.
The prosecutors had wanted a punishment of 40-year term for the 2010 incident plot that was, in reality, an FBI sting. But US District Court Judge Garr King did not agree because of the youth of the person coupled with remorse he had shown for his actions.
Incidentally, Mohamud, former Oregon State University student, had been arrested on November 26, 2010 – he had pressed a keypad button on a cellphone which, he had been led to believe, would trigger a massive truck bomb and would kill people who had gathered for an annual Christmas tree-lighting event.
The bomb was a fake that had been provided by FBI agents who had posed as agents of al-Qaeda recruiters. The undercover agents had, reportedly, befriended Mohamud after learning that he had written for an online jihadi magazine and exchanged emails with accused terrorists.