Federal prosecutors are asking for a sentence of more than 13 years in prison for a former U.S. Navy sailor who they say “aspired to be a merchant of death,” plotting a terrorist attack at Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago’s north suburbs and seeking to help the Iranian government move radioactive material into the U.S. for what he thought could be a dirty bomb.

Xuanyu Harry Pang, 39, a naturalized U.S. citizen from China who immigrated here in 1998, was charged in a sealed criminal complaint in 2022 and pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to and attempting to destroy national-defense premises.

In his plea agreement with prosecutors, Pang, who had trained at the Great Lakes facility near Waukegan, admitted taking surveillance photos and videos of the outside and inside of the bas

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