Man Who Terrorized Christian Churches With Bomb Threats Sentenced to 6 Years in Federal Prison

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Man Who Terrorized Christian Churches With Bomb Threats Sentenced to 6 Years in Federal Prison
 
Scott McClallen  | November 09, 2025 11:00 AM
 
Zimnako Salah, 46, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced in the Eastern District of California to six years in prison for targeting Christian churches.

In March 2025, a jury in Sacramento convicted Salah of strapping a backpack around the toilet of a Christian church in Roseville, with the intent to convey a hoax bomb threat and to obstruct the free exercise of religion of the congregants who worshipped there.
 

The jury’s verdict included a special finding that Salah targeted the church because of the religion of the people who worshipped there, making the offense a hate crime.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/11/09/man-who-planted-fake-bombs-in-christian-churches-sentenced-to-federal-prison-n2666167

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He's not a member of the religion of peace, is he?

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Potential terrorist who stored explosives in Colorado, practiced church bombings, sentenced on hate crime charge
By Logan Smith
November 8, 2025 / 1:13 PM MST / CBS Colorado

A 46-year-old Phoenix resident and Iraqi native received a maximum six-year prison sentence Friday on a hate crime charge for playing out plans to bomb Christian churches in three states.

Zimnako Salah visited four churches in Arizona, California, and Colorado in late 2023, according to evidence presented at his trial earlier this year. Salah placed black backpacks inside two of the churches -- one in Sacramento, California, and another in Scottsdale, Arizona. ...

Salah was connected to the four incidents by surveillance videos, including the Colorado deputy's bodycam recording, some of which showed the vehicles he drove into the parking lots. Investigators found those vehicles at Salah's residence in Phoenix. Inside one of them was a receipt for a storage unit in Colorado.

Inside that storage unit, they found propane canisters, strips of duct tape with nails attached, wiring and wire cutters, a battery, and what appeared to be an Islamic Koran. ...

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