INQUIRER.net: Would-be Chicago backpack bomber gets 23 years

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Would-be Chicago backpack bomber gets 23 years May 30th 2013, 22:46 CHICAGO—A US judge sentenced a young Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison Thursday for placing a backpack he believed contained a powerful bomb along a bustling street near a major Chicago sports stadium.   The 25-year-old Sami Samir Hassoun, a former baker, pleaded guilty last year to dropping the backpack into a trash can outside a bar packed with late-night revelers across the road from Wrigley Field in 2010. FBI undercover agents had given him the bag.   The defense depicted Hassoun as a gullible youth sucked into the sting during an alcohol-addled stretch of his life by an informant eager to please his FBI handlers.   Prosecutors say he decline... Keep on reading: Would-be Chicago backpack bomber gets 23 years Media files: chicago.jpg (image/jpeg)

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