US national indicted for using WMD in Afghanistan

January 07, 2016 02:36

A US court today indicted a 30-year-old American national for allegedly using weapons of mass destruction against a US military base in Afghanistan.

If convicted, Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in prison and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. According to court papers, Farekh assisted in the preparation of a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device for use in the attack at a US military base in Afghanistan.

On January 19, 2009, two co-conspirators drove vehicles to the US military base in Afghanistan. The first co-conspirator detonated the VBIED in his vehicle during the attack on the military base.

The second co-conspirator drove a truck containing a second VBIED to the military base, but did not detonate that device. Farekh's fingerprints were subsequently recovered from packing tape on the VBIED that did not detonate, federal prosecutors alleged.

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