American convicted of supporting al Qaeda, aiding bomb attack

NEW YORK – An American citizen was found guilty by jurors in Brooklyn federal court on Friday of supporting al Qaeda and helping to prepare a 2009 car bomb attack on a US military base in Afghanistan.

Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, 31, was convicted of charges that include conspiring to murder Americans and use a weapon of mass destruction, and supporting a foreign terrorist organization, according to a spokesman for US prosecutors in Brooklyn.

He faces life in prison when he is sentenced on Jan. 11.