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1 acquitted, 6 to be retried, in alleged terror plot
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- One of seven men accused of conspiring to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and a federal jury in Miami failed to reach a verdict on six others arrested in the alleged terror plot.
The U.S. Attorney's Office announced that the six whose cases ended in mistrials would be retried starting on January 7.
Lyglenson Lemorin, who also goes by the name Brother Levi, was acquitted in the "Liberty City 7" trial, U.S. District Judge Joan Leonard's office told CNN.
The men were arrested in June 2006 and charged with a homegrown terror plot that officials said may have targeted not only the 110-story Chicago tower -- the tallest building in North America -- but also the FBI's Miami offices and other sites.
At the time, sources told CNN that the suspects were dealing with a man they believed was an al Qaeda operative but who was actually a government informant. Senior federal sources told CNN that the men were "not related to al Qaeda" but "possibly" were al Qaeda wannabes.
Five of the seven men were Americans, one was an illegal alien from Haiti whose visa had expired, and the seventh was a resident alien, federal sources said.
The group's supporters and the news media adopted the "Liberty City 7" name because authorities said the men operated out of a warehouse in Miami's Liberty City area.
A man who identified himself as Brother Corey told CNN at the time that five of the men arrested in Miami were his "brothers," members of a group he identified as Seas of David.
Brother Corey said the group had "soldiers in Chicago," but was peaceful and not associated with any terrorist organizations.
The warehouse where the raids took place, he said, "is a place where we worship and also have businesses, as a work site, as a construction company we are trying to build up."
He said Seas of David is a religious group that blends the teachings of Christianity and
D'oh!!!
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Originally Posted by Shane H
Oh Devon you poor poor soul.
Now who's the poor soul?
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Originally Posted by DevonCardsFan
The Last laugh will be on you guys!! Trust me, Ive done my research have you?? You are part of the system anyway, do you feel it is just
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Devon...hold on...can't hear you with my tinfoil hat on....say again??
How do you like your crow?
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Doubts?? Really Jonny?? So now we should only apprehend terrorists after they have actually committed their act of destruction?? Or better yet, perhaps we should have asked these guys first - "do you really mean what you say? Would your really have carried out your plot?"... And depending upon their response, we would then arrest or set them free???
Brilliant!!
Oops! Wrong again - as always....
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One was aquitted and 6 are being retried. It may well end up that they are all aquitted, but being cardinals fans you should all know it's WAY too early to be beating your chest.
If they aren't guilty, I hope they go free. If they are, I'm glad they were caught before thousands of people were killed.
This case reeks of a gray area of entrapment. You have 7 yahoos who are disaffected and disenfranchised and apparently not very well educated. So, you insert an educated point of influence into this to redirect and influence their minds and you CREATE a threat. Even still, that threat is not even really a threat at all. In any case, you create a perceived threat and then you charge them for being that perceived threat that you created. How is that not a form of entrapment? Would they have evolved to this on their own?
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