Pentagon shooter pleads guilty

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A former Marine pleaded guilty Thursday to firing shots at the Pentagon and other military facilities in Northern Virginia.

Yonathan Melaku admitted in federal court in Alexandria that he attacked the Pentagon, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, a Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly and a Woodbridge Coast Guard recruiting center between October and November 2010. No one was injured in the shootings.

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