The Albanian refugee who supplied the guns in the foiled Ft. Dix Six plot to kill soldiers preparing to deploy to Iraq got off lightly in NJ yesterday according to this article in the New York Times.
CAMDEN, N.J. — A 25-year-old man who admitted he supplied guns and ammunition to friends accused of plotting to attack soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey was sentenced on Monday to 20 months in prison, a term that exceeds the federal guidelines but falls short of the five years prosecutors had sought.
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The man, Agron Abdullahu, an ethnic Albanian who immigrated to the United States in 1999 from a refugee camp in Macedonia, has already served almost 11 months in prison and could be released by year’s end, his lawyer said.
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“I wish I never let them use my guns,” Mr. Abdullahu said at a hearing Monday morning before the sentence was pronounced. “I’m sorry. I can’t turn back time.”
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Judge Robert B. Kugler of Federal District Court here rejected motions from prosecutors for “upward departures” and an “enhancement” that would have significantly extended Mr. Abdullahu’s sentence, but he still imposed a sentence harsher than the 10 to 16 months called for in federal guidelines.
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“I am convinced this was not as innocent as he would like us to believe,” the judge said of Mr. Abdullahu.
So the judge gave him 20 months instead of 16. Wow, what a punishment.