Man jailed for New York bomb plot

A man was sentenced to five years in prison today for conspiring to blow up a busy Manhattan underground station.

A man was sentenced to five years in prison today for conspiring to blow up a busy Manhattan underground station.

James Elshafay, had pleaded guilty and testified against the mastermind of the plot, Shahawar Matin Siraj, at a trial last year in federal court in Brooklyn.

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