{"id":1988,"date":"2007-01-09T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/just_imagine_how_long_we_could_have_put_him_away_for_had_he_actually_come_up_with_the_idea_on_his_own.html"},"modified":"2007-01-09T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T18:21:11","slug":"just_imagine_ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/just_imagine_ho.html","title":{"rendered":"Just Imagine How Long We Could Have Put Him Away For Had He Actually Come Up With The Idea On His Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYPD’s vaunted anti-terror arm justifies its existence with a collar’s thirty-year sentence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the courtroom was crowded, largely with news reporters and law enforcement officials. Mr. [Shahawar Matin] Siraj’s parents, appearing stunned when the sentence was dispensed, were also in the courtroom, and his uncle sat in the last row. His mother, Shahina Parveen, dressed in a patterned light blue tunic and pants, and a white head scarf, clutched a string of pale green prayer beads that she had carried during the trial.<\/p>\n

After the proceeding, she began to cry as she sat on a bench outside the courtroom and talked to one of her son’s lawyers, Khurrum B. Wahid, slipping a tissue behind her glasses. Later, she spoke briefly to reporters, maintaining her son’s innocence and saying he would appeal.<\/p>\n

“The N.Y.P.D., through a paid informant, tricked my son and got him stuck in this,” Ms. Parveen said, as Mr. Wahid translated from the Urdu. “He didn’t do anything. I didn’t get any justice. It was not a fair sentence.”<\/p>\n

But the Police Department, which investigated the case, the first in which a terrorism inquiry by its Intelligence Division led to a prosecution in federal court, hailed the sentence, calling it “a milestone in the safeguarding of New York City.”<\/p>\n

“It says that those who conspire against New York will pay a severe price,” Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in a statement, praising the Intelligence Division, saying it “uncovered a murderous plot in its infancy and stopped it before lives were lost.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, that last quote should probably read “devised<\/em> and uncovered a murderous plot in its infancy and stopped it before lives were lost.”<\/p>\n

Earlier: Spies Like Us!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NYPD’s vaunted anti-terror arm justifies its existence with a collar’s thirty-year sentence: Yesterday, the courtroom was crowded, largely with news reporters and law enforcement officials. Mr. [Shahawar Matin] Siraj’s parents, appearing stunned when the sentence was dispensed, were also in the courtroom, and his uncle sat in the last row. His mother, Shahina Parveen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}