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Kenyan Al-Shabaab member sentenced to life in US for September 11-style plot

Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah will appear in a New York City federal court Wednesday on terror-related charges. [AFP]

A Kenyan member of the Al Shabaab militant group who received pilot training in the Philippines was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for conspiring to mount a 9/11-style attack in the US. 

Cholo Abdi Abdullah was convicted last year of conspiring to murder US nationals, conspiring to commit aircraft piracy and other offenses. 

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