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NEW YORK (AP) - A man who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a New York subway station next to Macy's flagship department was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.
James Elshafay, along with Pakistani immigrant Shahawar Matin Siraj, had been caught with crude diagrams of the Herald Square subway station on Aug. 27, 2004 — the eve of the Republican National Convention. Prosecutors said the men wanted to avenge the abuses of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.
When the two were arrested, authorities said, they hadn't obtained explosives and had not been linked to known terrorist groups.
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