A federal appeals court on April 21 rejected a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist’s bid for a reduced sentence over his role in a thwarted bombing plot targeting Manchester, England—linked to other planned attacks in the United States and Denmark—affirming that a lower court acted within its discretion by denying a new sentencing hearing.
In a summary order issued Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sided with the U.S. government, finding that a district court judge was justified in denying the resentencing proceeding for Abid Naseer, a Pakistani national convicted in 2015 for conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda and other crimes.
