Plotter in attack on Texas Mohammed art contest jailed for 30 years

The ringleader behind a 2015 armed assault on a Texas exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that left two attackers dead was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 45, had been found guilty of supporting the Islamic State group, of conspiracy to commit murder, and other charges in what the US Justice Department said was its first jury trial involving an IS-inspired attack on the United States. US-born and raised Kareem was alleged to have chosen the target, supplied the weapons and encouraged friends Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi to undertake the attack in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015.