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Conviction of Pakistani in NY subway bomb plot
 A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and 30-year sentence of a Pakistani man found guilty in an unsuccessful plot to bomb a busy subway station in New York. The Manhattan court decided that Shahwar Matin Siraj, 25, was treated fairly at his federal court trial. A jury found him guilty in a 2004 plot to blow up the Herald Square subway station in a congested shopping district where Macy's has long had its flagship store. Lawyers for the defendant had argued that a police informant had set up their client. But the government proved Siraj had shown an interest in violent jihad through books and a videotape. Posted by: Fred 2008-07-10 |
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