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| Cab driver guilty of Iraq bomb murder | |
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| A black cab driver has been found guilty of the murder of a US soldier in Iraq, in a roadside bombing, in 2007. | |
| Anis Sardar, 38, from Wembley in north-west London, built bombs as part of a "deadly" campaign to kill Americans fighting in the country. | |
| The devices were planted in or around the road west out of Baghdad, London's Woolwich Crown Court heard. | |
| One caused the death of 34-year-old Sergeant First Class Randy Johnson, of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment. | |
| He died after the bomb hit the armoured vehicle he was travelling in on 27 September, 2007. | |
| Sardar was caught about seven years later after FBI officials found his fingerprints on some of the bombs. | |
| A jury of seven women and five men took just over 11 hours to find him guilty of murder, by a majority of 11-1, and unanimously of conspiracy to murder. | |
| A count of conspiracy to cause an explosion was ordered to lie on file. | |
| The defendant stayed calm as the verdicts were read out. | |
| Speaking afterwards, Sue Hemming, from the Crown Prosecution Service, called it a "landmark prosecution" that showed international borders were "no barrier" to terrorists in the UK being prosecuted for murder committed anywhere in the world. | |
| She said Sardar was a "highly dangerous man" who had been working with "murderous intent" against coalition forces. | |
| Sardar is expected to be sentenced on Friday. |