Liberty City terror retrial going to the jury

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Source: Miami Herald

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"Having already sparred over the same evidence during the first trial last year, the prosecution and defense each made sharper arguments in the retrial of a Miami group accused of plotting with al Qaeda to overthrow the United States.

But when the 12 federal jurors begin deliberating the terror case on Monday, they face the same struggle that beset the previous panel in December.

That jury deadlocked on the terror-conspiracy charges against the six defendants and acquitted a seventh after nine days of deliberations.

Jeffrey Agron, the jury foreman in the first trial and a lawyer who heads a Jewish school in Kendall, said the second jury will grapple with the same competing theories:

Did the Liberty City group intend to join with the terrorist organization in a plot to blow up FBI buildings and Chicago's Sears Tower? Or were the six men trying to con money out of an FBI informant posing as an al Qaeda operative who set them up?"

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/476492.html

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1. And the theory that isn't considered

Is it really "terrorism" if agents of our own government take the vague disgruntlement of a group of yahoos and trick them into focusing those inchoate feelings into a half-formed "plot" that they have no hope of pulling off? Wouldn't the citizens be better served by ferreting out and prosecuting, you know, actual terrorists?