Al-Qaeda Plotter Given 40 Years Over Foiled U.K. Mall Attack
- Abid Naseer was convicted in March of multiple terror offenses
- Terror plot also included planned assault on New York subway
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A Pakistani al-Qaeda operative was sentenced to 40 years in a U.S. prison over his role in a 2009 plot to bomb a mall in the U.K., as well as the New York City subway and a Copenhagen newspaper.
Abid Naseer, 29, was convicted by a jury in Brooklyn, New York, in March. Prosecutors said Naseer was within days of carrying out the attack on a shopping center in Manchester, England. Seven other men were charged in the scheme, including three who planned the assault on New York City.