Prosecutors: New Jersey bomber tried to corrupt inmates

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NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors are urging a judge to impose a life sentence on a New Jersey man who injured 30 people in a Manhattan bombing and then promoted his extremist ideology to other prisoners.

Prosecutors say the Afghanistan-born Ahmad Khan Rahimi deserves the mandatory life sentence required by his October conviction on terrorism-related charges.

The government made its arguments in papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The bombing in the Chelsea section of Manhattan in September 2016 came hours after Rahimi set off a pipe bomb along a Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

Rahimi was arrested two days later in a shootout with police.

Prosecutors say Rahimi is proud of what he did, scornful of the American justice system and remains dedicated to his extremist ideology.

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