FOXNews.com - No time behind bars for imam in NYC subway plot: "NEW YORK (AP) — An Afghanistan-born imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations will not go to prison but must leave the country within 90 days, a judge ruled Thursday.
Ahmad Afzali was sentenced to time served: four days from Sept. 20 to Sept. 24. He faced up to six months behind bars after pleading guilty last month in federal court in Brooklyn.
The imam said he had wanted to help authorities in the investigation of the threat but lied under grilling by the FBI about his phone conversations with admitted al-Qaida associate Najibullah Zazi. Afzali lied when he said he never told Zazi that he was under surveillance in New York.
'I take full responsibility for my actions,' Afzali said in an emotional statement to Judge Frederic Block.
'Honest to God, it was never my intention to help those idiots for what they do in the name of Islam,' he said, referring to the terrorist suspects."
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