New York man gets 25 years in jail for trying to join Yemeni al Qaeda wing

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York man was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison for trying to travel to Yemen to join an Islamic militant group and providing money to an associate to do the same after his initial plan failed, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Marcos Alonso Zea, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra Feuerstein in Central…