Jul 9, 2008 11:01 am US/Eastern
Court Upholds NYC Subway Bomb Plot Conviction
NEW YORK (AP) ―
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Shahawar Matin Siraj was convicted on conspiracy charges.
AP
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.
The Manhattan court decided that 25-year-old Shahwar Matin Siraj was treated fairly at his trial in Brooklyn federal court.
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 their client had been set up by a police informant. But the government proved Siraj had shown an interest in radical Islam and violent jihad through books and a videotape.
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