Defense Rests in Miami Terrorism Trial
Nov 20, 2007 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5idfDmrtarDonhbdqZdXQwhTtFYRwD8T1RN7O0 MIAMI (AP) - The defense wrapped up its case Tuesday in the trial of seven men charged with plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in Miami and other cities. U.S. District Court Judge Joan Lenard ordered the jury to return next Tuesday to hear a brief rebuttal case from federal prosecutors. Closing arguments could begin the following day. During the trial, which has lasted nearly two months, only one of the defendants took the stand. Narseal Batiste, the alleged leader of the so-called "Liberty City Seven," testified that he invented a fake plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower in order to con money out of a man who claimed to be an al-Qaida operative. Batiste had dozens of meetings with the man, who was actually a paid FBI informant. During an FBI audiotape played for jurors, Batiste alone takes the oath of allegience to al-Qaida from the informant and then makes plans to meet him again with the entire group at a new warehouse. Batiste was told the building was being provided by al-Qaida but it was actually had been fitted by the FBI with hidden surveillance cameras. A few days later, on March 16, 2006, the other six defendants were recorded taking the oath. Prosecutors say the seven men plotted to topple the 110-story Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in five cities in hopes of starting a broader anti-U.S. insurrection, although their plans never got very far. The men face up to 70 years in prison if convicted of four terror-related conspiracy counts. Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
