Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a Canadian citizen of Iraqi descent, pleaded guilty in July 2002 to participating in the disrupted bomb plots on orders from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to case records unsealed on Thursday. Jabarah had initially agreed to cooperate in the investigation, but changed his mind months later after a childhood friend was killed trying to attack U.S. Marines in Kuwait. He vowed revenge, and planned while in jail to kill FBI agents and prosecutors assigned to his case, the records show. "Jabarah's offense conduct and post-plea jihadist scheming justify a life sentence," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo. They said he hid steak knives and bomb instructions in his cell and quoted him as writing "If they release me ... then I will kill them until I am killed."Jabarah is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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