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Musab Mohammed Masmari, a Muslim man who grew up in Libya and moved to the U.S. in 2009, has pled guilty to arson for trying to burn down Seattle's iconic gay nightclub "Neighbors."
On New Year's Eve around midnight, Masmari entered the club with a gallon of gasoline inside a shopping bag. He poured it onto a staircase covered by a rug and lit it on fire. The flames were quickly put out, but Masmari escaped.
The Facebook page of Masmari showed he was from Benghazi and wrote a post in November that reads: