New York, 1 April (AKI) - An ethnic Albanian from Kosovo has been sentenced to 20 months in jail by a United States court for his role in a terrorist plot to kill American soldiers in a military base, local media said on Tuesday.

The District court in Camden, New Jersey, on Monday sentenced Agron Abdulahu. He was a member of a terrorist group of six which was arrested last May for planning a terrorist attack on Fort Dix military base in New Jersey with the aim “to kill as many as possible American  soldiers”. Abdulahu was charged with providing weapons and training for the group and pleaded guilty last October.

 The other members of the group, three ethnic Albanian brothers from Macedonia, Elvir, Sain and Dritan Duka, were charged with “conspiracy to kill military personnel” and if convicted could get a life sentence. The same charges were pressed against Jordanian citizen Mohamad Shnewer and a Turk, Serdar Tatar

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said there was no prove that the group was directly linked to other terrorist organizations. But al-Qaeda propaganda material was seized during raids of their apartments along with weapons and explosives.

 All six were illegal immigrants in the United States and were indoctrinated by radical Islam, the FBI concluded.

Abdulahu’s lawyer Richard Coughlin was quoted as saying his client’s sentence was ”very fair”, because he hadn’t directly participated in the plot. “I had never thought for a single moment that they would really do it,” Abdulahu told the court, referring to the group’s plans.