Ahmad Khan Rahimi,29, convicted of planting two pressure-cooker bombs in the Chelsea neighborhood in the summer of 2016A New Jersey man was convicted on Monday of planting two pressure-cooker bombs on New York City streets, or including one that injured 30 people with a rain of shrapnel when it detonated in a bustling neighborhood on a weekend night last summer.
The verdict in Manhattan came after the two-week trial of 29-year-veteran Ahmad Khan Rahimi,an Afghanistan-born man living in Elizabeth, 15 miles from Manhattan. The charges, or including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public space,carry a maximum punishment of life in prison.
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Source: guardian.co.uk