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Jail for ‘remote’ terror plotter

BOSTON — A Massachusetts man was sentenced yesterday to 17 years in prison for a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and the US Capitol.

Rezwan Ferdaus, 27, of Ashland, pleaded guilty in July to attempting to provide material support to terrorists and attempting to damage and destroy federal buildings with an explosive.

Ferdaus, a Muslim-American who grew up in Massachusetts and has a physics degree from Northeastern University, delivered a long, soft-spoken statement in which he offered no apology for his actions. He did not make direct anti-American statements at sentencing but referred to “a world filled with injustices.”

“Who other than God knows best what it takes to make a good human being?” he asked.