A British man was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for making a roadside bomb that killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq in 2007.
Anis Abid Sardar, 38, was accused of assembling bombs in Syria that were planted on the western outskirts of Baghdad that year. One of the devices killed Sgt. 1st Class Randy Johnson, 34, of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment. Johnson, from Washington, D.C., died after his armoured vehicle struck a bomb on September 27, 2007. Four other soldiers were injured.
Sardar, a former London taxi driver, was believed to be the first person to be convicted in a British court for fighting in the Iraqi insurgency.
But Justice Henry Globe dismissed that and said Sardar had “a mindset that made Americans every bit the enemy as Shia militias.”
Sardar was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 38 years.
