Retrial Begins for Six Accused in Sears Tower Plot

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Source: NY Times

Retrial Begins for Six Accused in Sears Tower Plot
By KIRK SEMPLE

MIAMI — The retrial of six construction workers accused of conspiring to join forces with Al Qaeda and blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago began on Friday, seven weeks after the jury in the first trial deadlocked on those defendants and acquitted a seventh.

In opening statements, prosecutors and defense lawyers hewed to essentially the same arguments they made in the first trial, the outcome of which was widely regarded as a significant defeat for the government.

Prosecutors insisted on Friday that even though the plot did not evolve beyond initial planning stages, the men avidly sought backing from Al Qaeda and demonstrated a determination to carry out their plan, which purportedly included bombing federal buildings in Miami and waging a ground war on the United States government,

“They had the will, they had the heart, they had the soul to do harm to this country,” Jacqueline M. Arango, an assistant United States attorney, told the jury. “All they needed was funding and assistance, and Al Qaeda was that ticket.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/us/nationalspecial3/02liberty.html?_r=1&ei=5088&en=4a9ad2e2327be157&ex=1359608400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1201928478-jIHxCrSVBiUh8Y9Ck3w0uQ&oref=slogin

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Be afraid.

They had will, heart, soul but needed boots.

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1. Liberty City Seven Trial Travesty

The case against Miami “terrorists” is mired in greed and falsehoods.
By Bob Norman
Published: November 22, 2007

One extorted $7,000 from a friend who raped his girlfriend and then, after accepting the money, beat her up and went to jail.

The other failed an FBI polygraph test while working on an undercover investigation, which one former FBI agent says should have disqualified him from ever working for the government again. Oh, and he was also once charged with roughing up a woman ...

Precious little has been revealed publicly about the informants ...

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2. That's Miami for ya...!!

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