A Washington cab driver who admitted he attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan in 2002 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Mahmud Faruq Brent Al Mutazzim was portrayed as eager to serve a terrorist group even if it meant attacking the United States.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska says the sentence for the Gwynn Oak, Maryland, man is "on the low side" of sentences for terrorism defendants.   But she says it the maximum available under the charge.

Brent waved and smiled to family and friends in court.

He declined to speak before he was sentenced.

His lawyer, Hassen Ibn Abdellah, called him a hard working family man who might have been "naive, young, impressionable" when he went to the terror training camp.