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Police Entrapment in Terror Case? NYC Subway Bomb Plotter Says He Was Set Up By Paid NYPD Informant- CrossPosted -
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www.democracynow.org
On Monday, a twenty-four year-old Pakistani immigrant was sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station. Shahawar Matin Siraj was arrested days before the Republican National Convention in 2004 and held without bail. This past May, he was convicted on four counts of conspiracy, including the most serious, plotting to bomb a public transportation system.
Attorneys for Siraj said he was entrapped by a paid police informant who cajoled and inflamed him to lure him into the conspiracy and that it was the informant who pushed the bombing. Siraj had no explosives, no timetable for an attack and little understanding about explosives. They also criticized the NYPD's tactics of sending informers and the undercover detectives into mosques to cast a wide net in search of radical Islamists.
www.democracynow.org
On Monday, a twenty-four year-old Pakistani immigrant was sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station. Shahawar Matin Siraj was arrested days before the Republican National Convention in 2004 and held without bail. This past May, he was convicted on four counts of conspiracy, including the most serious, plotting to bomb a public transportation system.
Attorneys for Siraj said he was entrapped by a paid police informant who cajoled and inflamed him to lure him into the conspiracy and that it was the informant who pushed the bombing. Siraj had no explosives, no timetable for an attack and little understanding about explosives. They also criticized the NYPD's tactics of sending informers and the undercover detectives into mosques to cast a wide net in search of radical Islamists.