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Jose Pimentel appears in a courtroom in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Pimentel, accused of building homemade bombs to wage holy war in New York City, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a terrorism charge less than a week before his scheduled trial in a rare state-level terrorism case. With the plea, Pimentel, 29, was promised a sentence of 16 years in prison. He would have faced a minimum of 15 years to life if convicted of the top charge, a high-level weapons possession offense as a terrorism crime. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

16 years in prison for man in NYC terror bomb plot

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Jose Pimentel enters the courtroom in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Pimentel, accused of building homemade bombs to wage holy war in New York City, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a terrorism charge less than a week before his scheduled trial in a rare state-level terrorism case. With the plea, Pimentel, 29, was promised a sentence of 16 years in prison. He would have faced a minimum of 15 years to life if convicted of the top charge, a high-level weapons possession offense as a terrorism crime. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Man pleads guilty in NYC pipe bomb terrorism plot

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

DA: Close court for part of NYC terror-plot trial

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Jose Pimentel (right), 27, represented by attorney Joseph Zablocki (left), is arraigned at Manhattan criminal court in New York on Nov. 20, 2011. Pimentel, an "al Qaeda sympathizer" accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home, was charged with criminal possession of explosive devices with the intent to use in a terrorist manner. (Associated Press)

Mother of N.Y.C. bomb plot suspect apologizes to city

By Jennifer Peltz and Tom Hays - Associated Press

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly holds a component of a mocked up pipe bomb, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, in New York. 27-year-old Jose Pimentel of Manhattan, a U.S. citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, was arrested Saturday for allegedly plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

N.Y.C. mayor: Manhattan man arrested in bomb plot

By Tom McElroy - Associated Press