Chicago AFP-JIJI

An American man who admitted to scouting targets ahead of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and then cooperated with U.S. authorities to avoid execution was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in prison.

David Coleman Headley, 52, pleaded guilty in 2010 to 12 charges related to the carnage in Mumbai and a second plot to attack a Danish newspaper that sparked outrage over its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.