A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former U.S. Navy sailor to 12 years in prison for 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 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 handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Daniel, who is a Marine veteran, said when he reviewed the facts of Pang’s case he immediately thought about the 1983 terrorist bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed more than 200 U.S. Marines, sailors and sol

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