Pakistani immigrant testifies in alleged subway bombing plot

[DoYouEverWonder]

January 25, 2006

A Pakistani immigrant admitted on the witness stand Tuesday that he came up with idea of bombing the 34th Street Herald Square subway station in the summer of 2004.

Testifying at a special hearing in Brooklyn federal court in an effort to have his statements to police kept out of his upcoming trial, Shahawar Matin Siraj admitted under questioning by a federal prosecutor that he talked to a government informant about targeting the subway station.

Siraj, 22, of Queens, is slated to go on trial in April on charges he plotted with the informant and another man to bomb the subway and other area bridges. Siraj is appealing a failed attempt to get asylum.

But outside the courtroom defense attorney Martin Stolar said that his client was entrapped and intimidated by the undercover operative into going along with the plotting. The attorney said that a surveillance videotape even had a timid Siraj telling the government informant that he needed to talk with his mother first before becoming involved in the bombing conspiracy.


http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/am-plot0125,0,2700861.story?coll=nyc-moreny-headlines

For anyone who questions how the US could have been behind 9-11, see how easy it is to convince other people to participate in acts of terrorism all in the name of their god.

[cantstandbush]

1. OMG, your last statement hit me hard. Yes, I agree it would be easy

to lead an immigrant into some terrorists acts. "Uncover" the act and claim that you are on top of stopping terrorists in the USA.

[enigma000]

2. Whose God?

Think of all the illegal immigrants pouring over the border from Mexico. Might we be facing a wave of US-government inspired Catholic suicide bombers attacking Walmarts?

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Oh please don't give them ideas

Agent Mike probably gets bonus points for the good ones.