(SF Chronicle) A 23-year-old Oakland man was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Tuesday after boasting about plotting a series of Islamic State-inspired attacks around the Bay Area.
Amer Sinan Alhaggagi — described by prosecutors as a grave terrorist threat but by defense lawyers as a harmless “troll” — was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison, followed by 10 years of probation, after pleading guilty in July to attempting to provide material support to a terror organization as well as to fraud charges.
Alhaggagi was recorded telling an undercover FBI agent two years ago that he planned to kill 10,000 people in a series of attacks, which included bombing nightclubs in San Francisco, distributing rat-poison-laced cocaine, bombing UC Berkeley dorms and torching the fire-prone East Bay hills.
