[AnNahar] A London taxi driver who made bombs targeting coalition troops in Iraq, one of which killed a U.S. soldier, was on Friday tossed in the calabooseDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
for life with a minimum of 38 years after being convicted of murder.
Anis Sardar, 38, built an improvised bomb (IED) which killed Sergeant First Class Randy Johnson of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment when it went
kaboom!under his armoured vehicle outside Baghdad on September 27, 2007.
Sardar was tossed in the clink
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in London in September 2014 after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation found his fingerprints on two bombs which were planted in the area at the time, although not the one which killed Johnson.
Sentencing him at London's Woolwich Crown Court, the day after a jury found him guilty of murder, Judge Henry Globe told Sardar that the soldier's death "was a loss for which you are directly responsible".
The judge rejected Sardar's defence that he had only been involved once in making a bomb, to protect the Sunni community from Shiite militias.
"I am satisfied that at the material time of the offences you had a mindset that made Americans every bit the enemy as Shiite militias. Both were in your contemplation at all times," he said.
Britannia's Crown Prosecution Service said it had been a "landmark" case, showing that "international borders are no barrier to holy warriors in the UK being brought to justice".