NYC woman sentenced to 15 years in prison for planning to build bomb to use in a terrorist attack

A Queens woman who planned to build a bomb and launch a terrorist attack against New Yorkers will spend the next decade behind bars, a federal judge decided Thursday. Asia Siddiqui, 35, who pleaded guilty in August to posting information online about how to build and use an explosive, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court.