NEW YORK: A Pakistani immigrant who claims a paid informant lured him into a phony bomb plot actually did the dirty work himself, picking a busy Manhattan subway station as a target, drawing diagrams and doing reconnaissance, a prosecutor argued. Shahawar Matin Siraj “did all those things on his own, of his own volition,” Todd Harrison, the assistant US attorney, said on Monday during closing arguments in the man’s trial. Siraj was arrested on the eve of the 2004 Republican National Convention on charges he wanted to attack a subway station in Herald Square, a dense shopping district that includes Macy’s flagship department store.The jury was expected to begin deliberating on Tuesday after hearing four weeks of testimony. The jurors will have to decide whether the suspect was planning the attack of his own accord or, as the defence argues, was pushed to do it by the police informant. In Monday’s closing arguments, the prosecutor argued that Siraj had become enraged over US policies in the Middle East long before he met the informant in 2003. “He was angry and he wanted to blow something up,” Harrison told jurors in federal court in Brooklyn. “It’s not that complicated.” Martin Stolar, the defence attorney, accused the informant, Osama Eldawoody, of brainwashing and entrapping his impressionable 23-year-old client by taking him under his wing and convincing him it was his duty as a Muslim to wage a holy war against American oppressors.