NEW YORK - A New York man was convicted on Thursday on charges of attempting to join a foreign terrorist organization with links to al-Qaida, in hopes of killing US soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.A federal jury in Brooklyn returned guilty verdicts on all four counts against Betim Kaziu, 23, hours after deliberations began Thursday morning. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.Kaziu was arrested in August 2009 in Kosovo, where prosecutors said he was seeking to join up with al Shabbab, a militant insurgency group linked to al-Qaida and designated a foreign terrorist organization by the US Department of State.
