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Judge Sentences Man To 14 Years For Mosque Firebomb

Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Echols sentenced 23-year-old Michael Corey Golden on Monday.

Golden along with Eric Ian Baker and Jonathan Edward Stonemen already pleaded guilty to burning the Islamic Center of Columbia in 2008. Prosecutors said Baker and Stone will be sentenced in December.

Court documents showed the men painted swastikas and racial slogans on the center, then threw two homemade Molotov cocktails into it.

Authorities said Baker, Golden and Stone, all of Columbia, had planned for a week to burn down the Mosque, which was located in a storefront.

The federal complaint said that at least one of the men said he was part of the extreme fundamentalist Christian Identity movement.

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