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Pakistani pleads guilty to reporting fake terror plot
Associated Press | December 10 2004
NEW YORK - A Pakistani man pleaded guilty
Wednesday to lying to the FBI about a purported terrorist plot to destroy
a New York City bridge.
Tanveer Choudhry, 32, who had a pending application for asylum in the United
States, concocted the story to win favor from authorities, prosecutors said.
He admitted telling the FBI that a Palestinian customer at the Brooklyn
gas station where he worked sought to enlist him in a terrorist attack.
He claimed the customer and unidentified ``brothers'' wanted to hijack two
gasoline trucks so they could ``burn the bridge.''
The customer offered Choudhry $5,000 to join
the plot, according to his alleged story.
Choudhry admitted he lied after being given a polygraph test. He said he
and the customer spoke about ``the possibility'' someone might attack the
Verrazano Narrows Bridge, but never discussed a plot to do it themselves.
Choudhry faces as many as six months in prison and deportation to Pakistan
when he is sentenced in federal court.
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