Pakistani gets 30 years prison for NY bomb plot

NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) A Pakistani immigrant convicted of plotting to detonate a bomb in New York City's Herald Square subway station was sentenced in a US federal court to 30 years in prison.

A jury yesterday found Shahawar Matin Siraj guilty in May of scheming to blow up the midtown Manhattan station located below a thriving shopping district -- that includes Macy's department store -- and just a block from the Empire State Building.

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