NEW YORK — A federal judge has sentenced the father of an admitted terrorist to 4 ½ years in prison for destroying evidence and lying to investigators.
Mohammed Wali Zazi (ZAH'-zee) was sentenced Friday in Brooklyn for charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Authorities said the former cab driver from Colorado tried to cover up his son's 2009 plot to attack the New York City subways.
His son, Najibullah Zazi, (nah-jee-BOO'-lah ZAH'-zee), admitted that he returned from Pakistan to the family's Denver-area home to practice making homemade bombs.
The younger Zazi then drove to New York with plans to attack the subway system. Instead, he learned he was being watched by the FBI and fled back to Colorado.
W. Colo. wildfire
About 400 firefighters and five helicopters are battling an eight-square-mile wildfire, near the Utah border.
NATO kills senior al-Qaida
NATO force in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida's second-highest leader in the country in an airstrike.
Syria dead executed
Most of the 108 victims of a chilling massacre in Syria last week were shot at close range, including children.
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