Britain: Life Term for Bomb Maker

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A London taxi driver convicted of making bombs that were used against United States forces in Iraq, one of which killed a sergeant, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday and told that he would spend at least 38 years behind bars. The defendant, Anis Sardar, 38, was convicted of murder and conspiracy to murder after his fingerprints were found on adhesive tape used to make two bombs planted under roads leading out of Baghdad in an area close to the United States Army’s Camp Liberty. One of the devices exploded as an armored vehicle drove over it on Sept. 27, 2007, killing Sgt. First Class Randy Johnson. Mr. Sardar had argued that he had become involved in the conflict in Iraq to protect Sunni villages from attack by Shiite militias and had merely helped others put the bombs together. But the prosecution argued that he was either deliberately targeting American troops or did not care whom the explosive devices killed.