Saudi man gets life in prison in bomb plot

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

• Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 22, right, is escorted Tuesday from the federal courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, by U.S. Marshals after being sentenced to life in prison on a federal charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a Lubbock-based bomb-making plot.

AMARILLO, Texas—A former Texas college student from Saudi Arabia was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for trying to make a bomb for use in a religious attack, possibly targeting a former U.S. president.

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari was sentenced in Amarillo, where jurors convicted ...

Published: 11/14/2012