A Pakistani-American man pleaded guilty in a closed U.S. court hearing to helping Islamic militants in a plot to blow up London train stations and pubs, law enforcement sources said on Thursday. The man, identified as Mohammed Junaid Babar, 29, was arrested in April in New York and no specific charges have been made public. Babar, a Pakistani-American who grew up in the New York borough of Queens, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court sometime after his arrest, but the hearing was sealed, a law enforcement source said. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan declined comment. British authorities told U.S. officials they believed Babar was involved in a plot by a London group known as al Muhajiroun to bomb pubs and train stations in London, a law enforcement source said. British authorities said they broke up the plot in March and arrested eight men. Babar was being held in New York and was cooperating with officials in the investigation, a law enforcement source said. | Sniff, sniff, smells like a plea deal to me. |
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