Pakistani man guilty in al-Qaida plot to attack NYC subway
Source: AP
By TOM HAYS
NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani man was found guilty Wednesday in a failed al-Qaida bomb plot after a New York 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.
The jury reached the verdict in federal court in Brooklyn after beginning deliberations Tuesday morning. No date was set for sentencing.
Abid 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 that alleged a broader conspiracy that included a failed plot to attack the New York City subway.
After his rearrest and extradition to the United States in 2013, Naseer pleaded not guilty to providing and conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida and conspiring to use a destructive device.
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2015, courtroom file sketch, Abid Naseer, left, accused of being an al-Qaida operative, questions Najibulla Zazi, center right, a cooperating government witness, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Zainab Ahmad, far right, observes Naseer, and Judge Raymond Dearie listens from the bench in federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, where Naseer is acting as as his own attorney. During closing arguments Monday, Feb. 23, Nasser denied being part of a terror conspiracy to attack targets in America and Europe. In her closing argument, Ahmed told jurors that the arrests of Naseer and other members of a terror cell in Manchester, England in 2009 averted mass murder there. The government alleges Naseer had received bomb-making instruction in Pakistan in 2008. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)
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