NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani man recently sentenced to 40 years in prison for a failed al-Qaida bomb plot on the New York City subway.
A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Abid Naseer in March following a trial that featured spies in disguise, evidence from the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound and the defendant’s
questioning of an admitted co-conspirator.
Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Great Britain on charges he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
The charges were dropped after a British court found there wasn’t enough evidence, but U.S. prosecutors later named him in an indictment alleging a broader conspiracy that included the subway
plot.
He was rearrested and extradited to the United States.
