Canadian Sentenced to Life in Prison for US Airport Attack

Retired Bishop Airport police Lt. Jeff Neville speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Flint, Mich., on April 18, 2019. Amor Ftouhi, of Canada, convicted of terrorism for nearly killing Neville in June 2017, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after defiantly declaring he had no regrets and only wished he had carried a machine gun that day instead of a knife. Ed White/AP Photo

FLINT, Mich.—A Canadian man convicted of terrorism for nearly killing a Michigan police officer while yelling “God is great” in Arabic was sentenced to life in prison on April 18, after boldly declaring that he only regretted not having a machine gun during the knife attack.

Amor Ftouhi’s statements stunned U.S. District Judge Matthew Leitman, who said he’d been “wrestling very hard” with a decision about whether to allow the Tunisia native a chance to someday be released from prison.