TOLEDO, Ohio -- Federal prosecutors in Ohio are asking a judge to give a life sentence for a man convicted of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Sentencing began Tuesday for Mohammad Amawi. Prosecutors say Amawi was intent on killing as many American soldiers as he could. He and two others were found guilty in June 2008. The FBI says the men met in Toledo and began plotting and training to help insurgents in Iraq.
A sentencing hearing for a second man, Marwan El-Hindi, was unlikely to conclude Tuesday. He and the third man convicted, Wassim Mazloum, would likely be sentenced Wednesday. Lawyers for all three say the men were manipulated by an undercover FBI informant who recorded them for about two years beginning in 2004 while they talked about training in explosives, guns, and sniper tactics.
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