Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani -american who planned to bomb the herald square of manhattan”. Today it says “pakistani-american who was convicted in 2006 of terrorism conspiracy”.
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Shahawar Matin Siraj is a Pakistani-American who was convicted in 2006 of plotting to bomb a New York City Subway station in Manhattan . Siraj was arrested in 2004 and found guilty of terrorism conspiracy .1 Siraj worked at an Islamic bookstore in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Over a period of several months in 2004 he was recorded by an FBI informer Osama Eldawoody regarding a plot to plant a bomb in the 34th Street–Herald Square station. According to the New York City Police Department , Siraj was "extremely impressionable due to severe intellectual limitations" and never actually agreed to carry out an attack. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in January 2007. In April 2021, the New York Times published an extensive investigative journalism report making the case that Siraj was the victim of an entrapment scheme orchestrated by the FBI. Bomber's family is detained The New York Sun Kelly fears terror within New York Daily News "Band of brothers.(United States v.2
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Shahawar Matin Siraj is a Pakistani -American who planned to bomb the Herald Square of Manhattan , New York, when police arrested him in 2004. A New York court found Siraj guilty of plotting to commit a terrorist act in U.S. v. Siraj worked at an Islamic bookstore in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Over a period of several months in 2004 he was recorded by an FBI informer Osama Eldawoody plotting to plant a bomb in the 34th Street – Herald Square station of the New York City Subway .
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Shahawar Matin Siraj is a Pakistani-American who was convicted in 2006 of plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan , New York.Siraj was arrested in 2004 and found guilty of terrorism conspiracy in U.S. v. Siraj worked at an Islamic bookstore in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Over a period of several months in 2004 he was recorded by an FBI informer Osama Eldawoody plotting to plant a bomb in the 34th Street – Herald Square station of the New York City Subway . He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in January 2007.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Shahawar Matin Siraj is a Pakistani-American who was convicted in 2006 of plotting to bomb a New York City Subway station in Manhattan . Siraj was arrested in 2004 and found guilty of terrorism conspiracy in U.S. v. Siraj worked at an Islamic bookstore in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Over a period of several months in 2004 he was recorded by an FBI informer Osama Eldawoody plotting to plant a bomb in the 34th Street–Herald Square station. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in January 2007. Bomber's family is detained The New York Sun Kelly fears terror within New York Daily News "Band of brothers.(United States v.
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Pakistani-American terrorist Shahawar Matin Siraj is a Pakistani-American who was convicted in 2006 of terrorism conspiracy , regarding a plot to bomb a New York City Subway station in Manhattan . Siraj worked at an Islamic bookstore in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Over a period of several months in 2004 he was recorded by an FBI informer Osama Eldawoody regarding a plot to plant a bomb in the 34th Street–Herald Square station. According to the New York City Police Department , Siraj was "extremely impressionable due to severe intellectual limitations" and never actually agreed to carry out an attack. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in January 2007. In April 2021, the New York Times published an extensive investigative journalism report making the case that Siraj was the victim of an entrapment scheme orchestrated by the FBI. Kelly fears terror within New York Daily News "Band of brothers.(United States v.
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pakistani -american who planned to bomb the herald square of manhattan
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pakistani-american who was convicted in 2006 of terrorism conspiracy
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