Thursday, January 26, 2012

Accused Pentagon shooter pleads guilty in Va. (AP)

ALEXANDRIA, Va. ? An ex-Marine from Virginia has pleaded guilty to charges that he fired shots at the Pentagon, the Marine Corps museum in Quantico and other military-related targets.

A plea-agreement hearing was held Thursday for 24-year-old Yonathan Melaku (meh-LAH-koo) of Alexandria. He agreed to a 25-year sentence in the case.

Prosecutors charged Melaku last year, saying they had evidence linking him to a series of overnight shootings in 2010 at a number of military buildings in northern Virginia. No one was injured.

Melaku was arrested in June when he was spotted after dark in Arlington National Cemetery with a backpack containing potential explosives material and notations referring to jihad and Osama bin Laden. He apparently intended to spray paint tombstones with Arabic graffiti.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/usmilitary/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120126/ap_on_re_us/us_military_buildings_shootings

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