Weeping and quoting scripture, Mountaineer Militia "general" Floyd Ray Looker was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for his part in a plot to blow up the FBI's national fingerprint facility in West Virginia.
Looker was among the first in the nation to be sentenced under a 1994 federal antiterrorism law that makes it a crime to provide resources to terrorists.
Looker pleaded guilty to conspiracy and weapons charges after taking $50,000 for maps and blueprints of the FBI facility — where more than 1,000 people work — from an informant posing as a broker for a Middle Eastern terrorist organization.
Two other men have been sentenced on weapons convictions in connection with the plot. A third, a local volunteer fire department official, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for providing the blueprints to Looker.
At his sentencing, Looker assailed the government's informant as a liar. "I am not antigovernment," he said. "I am for responsible government."
Weeping and quoting scripture, Mountaineer Militia "general" Floyd Ray Looker was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for his part in a plot to blow up the FBI's national fingerprint facility in West Virginia.
Looker was among the first in the nation to be sentenced under a 1994 federal antiterrorism law that makes it a crime to provide resources to terrorists.
Looker pleaded guilty to conspiracy and weapons charges after taking $50,000 for maps and blueprints of the FBI facility — where more than 1,000 people work — from an informant posing as a broker for a Middle Eastern terrorist organization.
Two other men have been sentenced on weapons convictions in connection with the plot. A third, a local volunteer fire department official, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for providing the blueprints to Looker.
At his sentencing, Looker assailed the government's informant as a liar. "I am not antigovernment," he said. "I am for responsible government."