Lebanese immigrant sentenced in Wrigley Field bomb plot Patron of Sluggers Sports Bar and Grill walk along Clark Street on block from Wrigley Field, background, before a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 in Chicago. Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, a Lebanese citizen living in Chicago for about three years, was charged Monday with one count each of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device outside the bar. / AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast CHICAGO A U.S. judge has sentenced a Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a bomb along a bustling street near a major Chicago sports stadium. Sami Samir Hassoun was sentenced Thursday. The 25-year-old former baker pleaded guilty last year to dropping the backpack into a trash can outside a bar packed with late-night revelers across the road from Wrigley Field in 2010. FBI undercover agents had given him the bag. The defense depicted Hassoun as a gullible youth sucked into the sting during an alcohol-addled stretch of his life by an informant eager to please his FBI handlers. Prosecutors say he declined repeated opportunities to back out of the plot.