Terror suspect Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was ordered to serve life in prison yesterday for the brutal 2000 attack that permanently disabled Corrections Officer Louis Pepe.

Southern District Judge Deborah A. Batts found yesterday that a terrorism enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines applied to Mr. Salim, who plunged a sharpened comb into Mr. Pepe’s eye in a cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Nov. 1, 2000, in a bizarre plot to force a judge to assign him new lawyers.

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