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A US man was Thursday sentenced to 25 years in prison on terror charges, including threatening the creators of the animated series "South Park" for portraying the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit.

Zachary Adam Chesser, 21, who grew up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, had pleaded guilty in October to providing material support to a terror group and inciting violence against the South Park creators...

Chesser also pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to the Shebab, a Somalia-based group dubbed by the US State Department as a terror organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Chesser admitted that he twice tried to travel to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab. In July, he was arrested while trying to leave for the second time, bringing his infant son as "cover."

He also advocated placing suspicious-looking but innocent packages in public places in an effort to "desensitize law enforcement" about a potential explosive device, according to the Justice Department. Once police were used to seeing the benign packages, real ones could detonated... source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/2...-park-threats/