ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: BBC
08February2011 9:52amEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A New York television executive has been convicted of stabbing 
his wife to death and beheading her.
A jury found Pakistan-born Muzzammil Hassan guilty of second-degree murder in the 2009 death of Aasiya Hassan six days after she filed for divorce.
Hassan never denied killing her but said she had abused him and that he had acted in self-defence. He served as his own lawyer during the three-week trial.
Hassan, who founded a Muslim-oriented TV network, could face life in prison.
Prosecutors argued Hassan abused his wife and planned the attack in a hallway at Bridges TV, a satellite channel he set up in 2004 in an effort to counter negative portrayals of Muslims following the 9/11 terror attacks. (read full report)
