Kansas man sentenced to 20 years for plotting suicide bomb attack at Wichita airport
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - This file photo provided by the Sedgwick County, Kan., Clerk’s Office shows Terry Lee Loewen. Loewen, a former avionics technician who admitted plotting a suicide bomb attack at a Wichita airport, faces sentencing after striking a deal with prosecutors for a proposed 20-year imprisonment. Loewen pleaded guilty in June 2015 to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and was sentenced Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 to 20 years in prison. (Sedgwick County Clerk’s Office via AP, File) (The Associated Press)
A Kansas man who plotted a suicide bomb attack aimed at causing "maximum carnage" at a Wichita airport has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Terry L. Loewen apologized Monday during his sentencing to his family for the pain he had caused them.
The 60-year-old Wichita man pleaded guilty in June to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot imposed the proposed sentence that came with the plea deal.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The avionics technician was arrested during an undercover operation in December 2013 when he tried to bring a van filled with inert explosives onto the tarmac at Mid-Continent Airport.
He came to the FBI's attention when he became a Facebook friend of an individual who regularly posted information supporting violent jihad, or holy war.