NYC Subway Bomb Plotter Sentenced to 30 Big Ones

Some good news on the Homeland Security front:

NOT SATIRE:

New York subway bomb plotter jailed for 30 years

A Pakistani immigrant to the United States was sentenced to 30 years in prison today for hatching an unsuccessful plot to blow up a busy Manhattan subway station as revenge for wartime abuses of Iraqis.

Shahawar Matin Siraj, 24, was arrested on August 27, 2004, on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

Although there was no proof he ever obtained explosives or was linked to any terror organisations, prosecutors in the New York court said his intentions were ominous: he wanted to blow up the Herald Square subway station, a bustling transport hub.... Read More

30 Years is about right....!!!

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