Jury to deliberate in Liberty City 6 terror retrial (FBI's 3rd attempt to steamroll guys)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Monday, 04.27.09
Jury to deliberate in Liberty City 6 terror retrial
BY JAY WEAVER
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Federal jurors are set to begin deliberations Monday in the third terrorism trial of a group of inner-city Miami men accused of collaborating with al Qaeda.

The defendants, dubbed the Liberty City 6, were arrested in June 2006 on charges of conspiring with the global terrorist group to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago along with major federal buildings in Miami and other cities.

The first two trials ended with hung juries and the acquittal of one defendant, a lawful U.S. resident named Lyglenson Lemorin who is facing deportation to his native Haiti.

The 12-member jury heard closing arguments on Thursday and Friday after another two-month trial.

Prosecutors tried to portray the group's ringleader, Narseal Batiste, as a militant figure who used his Moorish religious organization to recruit followers to destroy the United States.

Defense attorneys attacked the prosecution's case as a setup led by an FBI informant who posed as an al Qaeda representative to lure the men into a fictitious terrorism conspiracy.


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1016114.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. To refresh your memory, in case you've forgotten about this farce:

http://img139.imageshack.us.nyud.net:8090/img139/971/libertysevenll6.jpg

"Liberty City Seven" from last year, before Haitian Lyglenson Lemorin was acquited.
Liberty City Seven Shows Terror War Is Fraud

Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
December 14, 2007

In a stunning defeat for the federal government, seven Miami men dubbed the “Liberty City Seven” who were accused of plotting to join forces with Al-Qaida to blow up the Chicago Sears Tower in 2006 were let go. One man was acquitted and a mistrial was declared for the six others after a federal jury ended up in a deadlock. What makes this case significant, is that the FBI actually utilized a paid informant to infiltrate the group posing as a fake Al-Qaida member in order to convince the men to blow up the Chicago Sears Tower. The group itself never made contact with any real so called Al-Qaida members and never acquired any weapons or explosives. Prosecutors even acknowledged that the alleged terror cell was aspirational versus operational. The FBI actually tried to create a threat that didn’t exist and the jury’s actions confirms that there was not adequate information to convict these men. Since the public isn’t buying the phony war on terror, the federal government with help from the establishment media tries to invent phony terror threats.

The following is taken from an Associated Press article covering the event.

Prosecutors said the “Liberty City Seven” — so-named because they operated out of a warehouse in Miami’s blighted Liberty City section — swore allegiance to al-Qaida and hoped to forge an alliance to carry out bombings against America’s tallest skyscraper, the FBI’s Miami office and other federal buildings.

The group never actually made contact with al-Qaida. Instead, a paid FBI informant known as Brother Mohammed posed as an al-Qaida emissary.

The defense portrayed the seven men as hapless figures who were either manipulated and entrapped by the FBI or went along with the plot to con “Mohammed” out of $50,000.

The group never actually made contact with al-Qaida and never acquired any weapons or explosives. Prosecutors said no attack was imminent, acknowledging that the alleged terror cell was “more aspirational than operational.”

http://noworldsystem.com/category/fake-terror-threat/

[Dr.Phool]

4. Protect us from the Insane Clown Posse!

An informant, some FBI agents and prosecutors belong in jail over this.

The entire case was absurd.

[DCKit]

10. A cling-on from the * years. Just one more Dick & Dumbya Dingleberry.

It'll take a while for all this unlawful shit to go away.

However, it's all going to come back around again unless we prosecute this shit and set an example.

[Mika]

5. Darth Cheenee still cites this case as one of the ways GWB "kept us safe" from terrrists.

:crazy:

[Demeter]

2. Talk About Beating a Dead Horse

I sure hope the accused are being fed well and getting medical care.

More Bush madness. Put an end to it.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[struggle4progress]

6. The lid was apparently clamped down tight on coverage of the third trial:

I've looked for stories on this all spring -- without success

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Any idea why the one who was acquitted, described as a lawful

resident and found not to be guilty of anything, is facing deportation?

[Judi Lynn]

8. It has looked exacctly like petty revenge, retalliation.

However, the _Bush administration wouldn't do anything that underhanded, surely!

[Initech]

9. Wow I thought this headline was about GTA 4.