NEW YORK, May 25 (UPI) -- A Pakistani immigrant has been found guilty by a U.S. jury in the 2004 plot to blow up the Herald Square subway station in New York.
A U.S. District Court jury convicted Shahawar Matin Siraj, 24, of the four bombing conspiracy counts against him after deliberating 10 hours over two days, The New York Times said.
Defense attorneys argued that Siraj had been entrapped by an informer who inflamed him with images of abuses of Muslims including some pictures taken at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. One of his lawyers called it "a manufactured crime."
Sentencing comes later. The charge of plotting to bomb a public transportation system carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, though lawyers told the Times a 20- or 30-year sentence if more likely.
