Pakistan Native Tried in NYC Subway Plot
A Pakistani immigrant, angered by the war in Iraq and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, wanted to punish Americans in 2004 by bombing one of New York City’s busiest subway stations, a police informant testified Monday at a conspiracy trial. Shahawar Matin Siraj vowed to “teach these bastards a lesson,” the informant, Osama Eldawoody, told jurors on the trial’s first day in federal court in Brooklyn. Full Story