A 22-year old man was sentenced to up to four years in a U.S. prison for his role in a failed Yom Kippur eve synagogue bombing. Mohammed Alfakih was sentence Wednesday for throwing two Molotov cocktails at Congregation Adath Israel in the Bronx on Oct. 8, 2000.
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