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  • U.S. conviction upheld in FBI sting of NY Muslims

    07/02/2008 5:00:57 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 2 replies · 107+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 7/2/08 | Christine Kearney
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iraqi Kurdish imam and a Bangladeshi-American pizzeria owner on Wednesday lost an appeal of their convictions for plotting to kill a Pakistani diplomat in what turned out to be an FBI sting operation. The U.S Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of Yassin Aref, 37, and Mohammed Hossain, 53, who were sentenced last year to 15 years each in prison for their roles in a fake plot to attack the Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations in New York with a missile. Both appealed their convictions of money-laundering and conspiring to provide material...
  • Pakistani diplomat goes missing in Baghdad - police

    04/09/2005 10:37:01 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 235+ views
    Reuters | April 10, 2005
    BAGHDAD, April 10 (Reuters) - A Pakistani diplomat has gone missing in Baghdad, Iraqi police said on Sunday. They said the man had failed to return from prayers at a mosque near his home on Saturday. Scores of foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq over the past year, some by insurgent groups with political demands and others by criminals seeking a ransom. An Egyptian diplomat was seized by insurgents on his way home from prayers last year but was freed a few days later.