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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 organization’s propaganda and recruiting materials. At trial, prosecutors showed jurors Ullah’s p...

© 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, making terroristic threats and supporting an act of terrorism. ADVERTISEMENT The New York Times reporte...

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 in a busy New York City subway station in 2017 to life in prison on Thursday, calling the crime “ba...

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 sentence, called the attack a “truly barbaric and heinous crime.” No one died and four people were in...