The Guardian: A Pakistani man was found guilty on Wednesday of 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 on Tuesday morning. No date was set for sentencing.
Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that 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 was insufficient evidence, but US prosecutors later named him in an indictment that alleged a broader conspiracy that included a failed plot to attack the New York City subway.
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