Man gets 16 year sentence for Obama threat
From CNN's Carol Cratty
A man from Uzbekistan living in Alabama was sentenced Friday to almost 16 years in prison for threatening to kill President Barack Obama.
Ulugbek Kodirov, 22, pleaded guilty in February to threatening Obama, providing material support for terrorism and for illegally possessing an automatic weapon.
In his guilty plea, Kodirov said that in 2011 he was communicating with a person he thought was a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a designated terrorist group, and that "Kodirov interpreted these conversations to mean that he should kill President Obama," according to the Justice Department.
Kodirov also admitted speaking to a different person in July 2011 about wanting to kill Obama and possible ways to carry out the act. Kodirov did not realize that person was a confidential source for law enforcement who then introduced Kodirov to someone to help him get weapons. The new contact was actually an undercover agent.
The three men met in a motel room in Leeds, Alabama, on July 13, 2011, and the undercover agent showed Kodirov a machine gun, a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight and four disassembled hand grenades, and asked if he would like any of them to "carry out his plan to kill the President." Kodirov picked the machine gun and the hand grenades, according to the Justice Department.
Kodirov took the weapons and left the meeting but was arrested by agents before he could get out of the building.
Kodirov came to the United States on a student visa in June 2009, but failed to enroll in school. His visa was revoked in April 2010 and from then on he was in the country illegally.
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I've never witnessed a blog with so many illiterate posts.
Seems like a mini-version of Fast And Furious.
Entrapment, too. Dude needs a real lawyer. Where is the ACLU ????
? only to 16 years ?
i hope anyone will kill us top terrorist obama and bush
Your next, in our cross hairs. Do us a favor and continue to post. DUCK!!!
Any act of terrorism against any American should be punish by life in prison, period.
all usa presidents have been losers but this one is a bankcrupt loser its not suprise since he hangs around hillary clinton that is a crazy cancer patient yelling in the street. obama cant do anything usa cant do anything britain cant do anything one topol m2 from russia and its game over supernintendo style.
You're obviously off your meds. Now choke yourself.
You neglected to mention "stupid", too.
all moslems are terrorists, probably, aren't they at the end of day somehow....
Not very bright, are you?
this is an election year and the political diggs an spin will fly, BUT IN NO WAY SHOULD THAT CROSS THE LINE.
the idiot gets what he deserves
I WOULD NEVER FOR THE LOSER obama .
Campaign propaganda. Both parties swim in it. The roman senators would have gladiator games and throw loaves of bread to buy votes. Todays candidates throw a lot of B S. There's a line of B S for ALL the improvements that are needed. Problem is the UNITED STATES is finished. China owns us and we can't blow them up. Time to learn chinese.
Eisenhower said when he gave his farewell speech in 1961. "if the military industrial complex ever gains control of the U.S. government..we will never again see peace in our lifetime." If you manufacture weapons of war...you have to manufacture reasons to use them. they are slowly killing our government and country as well.
What you'll get is a lifetime of enjoyment.
democracy is a lie just a month ago a person in norway got sent 5 years to jail just for writing a couple of things on the internet thats very much for a country like norway where people get 8 years for murder.
Vote is your right to take a life...now that is another set of laws....
obama doesnt count he's not the real american prisident anyway, just some fraudulent kenyian halfbreed that lied and cheated the electorial vote and swindled in passed the liberal voters.
He is an American and as much an American as any American..Unless YOU are NATIVE AMERICAN..we are all from somewhere besides America....ALL OF US....
"NATIVE AMERICANS" came from somewhere else too !
Lance, you need to learn how to spell president. Maybe you should stop bashing the president and try to finish up your grade 6 education. Between your job as a waiter and Mcdonald's, you should have time. Cheers mate!!!
Oh, another theorist, not very bright are we?
I'm threatening not to vote for him... How much time could I get for that?
8 more years of Republican extremism and failure.
Nice! Can't say I agree with the extremism or totally with the failure but I'll put two points on the board for a great answer.
Extending the mess that we're in now due to no new ideas from the Repubs. Conservatism my behind. These guys run up the debt with the tax cuts that was not paid for. It took a democratic president to get us out the last time (Clinton) and it's taking a lot longer this time due to the big hole we're in now. I'm an Independent voter who votes the issues and I just do not see a credible plan from the Republicans that will get us out of this mess. Health care - not perfect from Obama but it's a start. What about the Repubs? Please don't bring us the plan that dude Ryan brought up because that's a joke.
Some of the clowns on this blog need to take their meds.
I'm voting for Obama; not fooled by the repubs. Tell Mittens to release his tax returns. 2 years and he won't go beyond that. Is he hiding something? His daddy released 12 years of his returns. Now his business credentials are called into question about the Bain issue. Even his own party telling him to release them. Mike Dukakis - Willie Horton, Mitt Romney - Bain Capital. Hmm
Obama/Biden 2012