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Akayed Ullah has been sentenced to life in prison — plus 30 years — over his failed attempt to ignite a pipe bomb in a New York City subway station in 2017, NBC New York reports. Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeBackground: Ullah's bomb failed to fully explode and injured a few bystanders. Then-President Trump used the event as a rallying call for stricter immigration laws, with Ullah having been in the U.S. on...

Judge called attack ‘truly barbaric and heinous crime’

Failed Times Square Subway Bomber Sentenced to Life in Prison Plus 30 Years The attorney for Akayed Ullah said any time more than 35 years would be excessive, particularly because he “lived lawfully and peacefully” before the Dec. 2017 attack in subway tunnels beneath Times Square and the Port Authority bus terminal Published April 22, 2021 • Updated on April 22, 2021 at 5:46 pm NBC Universal, Inc. The judge said a life sentence is a just punishment for the "heinous crime." D...

NYC subway bomber sentenced to life in prison for terror attack A man convicted in federal court for the 2017 terror bombing attack in a New York City subway station was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Akayed Ullah could be seen on footage in an underground tunnel walkway detonating a bomb on his person during morning rush hour December 11, 2017. Six people were injured in the blast. Ullah injured his hands and stomach. The tunnel connects two subway lines beneath the Port Authority Bus T...

Port Authority Bomber Is Sentenced to Life in Prison Akayed Ullah, who detonated a pipe bomb in a crowded subway tunnel near Times Square in the name of ISIS in 2017, became radicalized online. Akayed Ullah was convicted in 2018 of setting off a bomb in the New York City subway system. His lawyers had sought a sentence of 35 years.Credit...NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, via Associated Press April 22, 2021Updated 4:59 p.m. ET It was 6 a.m. on a Monday in December in 2017 when Akayed Ullah le...

Ullah was arrested in the December 2017 attack when his bomb barely exploded, leaving him with serious burns but causing mostly minor injuries to those near him. Prosecutors had been able to request up to life in prison for the 31-year-old man who was convicted in November 2018. Earlier this year, Judge Richard J. Sullivan rejected a request to throw out the conviction, saying evidence amply establishes” that Ullah acted at the Islamic State group’s direction by “heeding the call of the o...

© Getty The 2017 New York subway bomber was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday by a federal judge, about 2 1/2 years after he was convicted. Akayed Ullah, 31, detonated a pipe bomb in a subway station near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in December of 2017. No people were killed or seriously injured in the attack, which came about a month after Sayfullo Saipov killed eight people in Lower Manhattan in a truck attack. Ullah was convicted in 2018 of possessing an illegal weapon, mak...

Akayed Ullah wounded himself and three other people in the December 11, 2017 blast

In this Dec. 12, 2017 file photo, police officers patrol in the passageway connecting New York City’s Port Authority bus terminal and the Times Square subway station, near the site of an explosion the previous day. Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant whose subway pipe bomb mostly misfired, was sentenced Thursday, April 22, 2021, to life in prison for the 2017 attack in New York City busiest station. AP NEW YORK — A judge sentenced a Bangladeshi immigrant whose pipe bomb mostly misfired i...

Hibbing, MN, USA / 93.9 WTBX Apr 22, 2021 10:28 AM NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi man convicted of setting off a pipe bomb during rush hour in New York City’s busiest subway station, Times Square, was sentenced on Thursday to life plus 30 years in prison. Akayed Ullah, 31, of Brooklyn had claimed he wanted to kill only himself and was not acting on behalf of Islamic State when he detonated his homemade bomb on Dec. 11, 2017. U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan, who imposed the sente...