New York subway bomb plotter jailed for 30 years

A Pakistani immigrant to the United States was sentenced to 30 years in prison today for hatching an unsuccessful plot to blow up a busy Manhattan subway station as revenge for wartime abuses of Iraqis.

New York subway bomb plotter jailed for 30 years
Mon, 08 Jan, 2007 - 22:24

A Pakistani immigrant to the United States was sentenced to 30 years in prison today for hatching an unsuccessful plot to blow up a busy Manhattan subway station as revenge for wartime abuses of Iraqis.

Shahawar Matin Siraj, 24, was arrested on August 27, 2004, on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

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