Tarek Mehanna Found Guilty
Guilty on all counts.
That was the verdict Tuesday from the jury in the terrorism case of Tarek Mehanna.
The jury in Boston convicted him of conspiring to help al-Qaeda and plotting to kill US soldiers in Iraq.
After Tuesday’s verdict, the 29-year-old defendant could be sentenced to life in a prison.
Prosecutors in the case said that Mehanna was born and raised in a Boston suburb and traveled to Yemen to attend a training camp.
His defense lawyers said it was to study Islam.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to David Cole, professor of Law at the Georgetown University, about the verdict.
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