(AP) A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Canadian man to 26 years in U.S. prison for supporting a group of jihadists who committed a 2009 suicide attack that killed five American soldiers in Iraq.
The sentence came over the objections of several family members of the soldiers, who appeared in Brooklyn federal court and demanded Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa spend the rest of his life behind bars.
“These five families will never be whole again,” said Becky Johnson, whose 24-year-old son, Gary Lee Woods Jr., died in the April 2009 blast outside the gate of the U.S. base in Mosul, Iraq.
Johnson said she had been “appalled” by the plea offer in the case, adding it seemed to her that “someone felt my son wasn’t worth fighting for.”
