Sentencing in Terror Plot

A man linked to plotters who allegedly hoped to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings pleaded guilty today to a federal weapons charge.

Sultan Khanbey was sentenced to 14 months in prison with credit for the time he has served since his arrest in May.

Khanbey is a leader of Chicago’s Moorish Science Temple religious sect who was born Charles Stewart. He admitted he fired a handgun during an argument at the Miami warehouse where a group led by Narseal Batiste allegedly pledged allegiance to al-Qaida and made plans for terror attacks.

Batiste and six others arrested this summer never got beyond the plotting stage, and a man they thought was an al-Qaida operative was actually an F-B-I informant.

The seven terror suspects remain jailed without bond and face trial March 5 in Miami.