Jury chosen for retrial of alleged Sears Tower conspirators

[Robbien]

Source: AP

MIAMI (AP) - A jury was chosen Wednesday for the retrial of six men accused of conspiring with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in Miami and elsewhere.

Opening statements are scheduled for Friday.

The first trial ended Dec. 13 after two months of testimony in a hung jury for six of the defendants and the acquittal of one. Despite the innocent verdict for Lyglenson Lemorin, 33, the Bush administration is seeking to deport him to Haiti.

. . .

Prosecutors contend they took an oath of allegiance to al-Qaida and plotted with a undercover FBI informant to stage the attacks in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection.

The group's alleged ringleader, 33-year-old Narseal Batiste, testified in the first trial that he played along with the terror plots in an effort to con the informant out of $50,000.

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[annabanana]

1. This is pathetic.. aren't these the guys who asked the

FBI guy to get them some good boots? The shampoo salesmen? What a load of horseshit.

[Hannah Bell]

2. the one where the fbi informant...

provided the plan & equipment - yeah.