A federal judge on Thursday handed a 12-year prison sentence to a former Navy sailor who “raised his hand not to swear an oath to the Constitution but to participate in an attack” on Naval Station Great Lakes as payback for the 2020 death of an Iranian military commander.

Xuanyu Harry Pang pleaded guilty in November to conspiring to destroy national-defense premises . Prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Jeremy Daniel to give him a sentence of more than 13 years in prison, insisting that “very few people have demonstrated Pang’s willingness to support mass slaughter.”

“Pang sought to assist in an attack that, if real, could have resulted in the slaughter of his fellow Navy sailors, a monstrous betrayal,” assistant U.S. attorneys Aaron Bond and Vikas Didwania wrote in a 26-page court

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