MIAMI AP – A federal jury in Miami has convicted five men of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to topple Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in hopes of igniting an anti-government insurrection. A sixth man was acquitted.
Tuesday’s verdicts came after six days of deliberations in the third trial of the “Liberty City Six.” The first two trials ended in mistrials when jurors could not agree on the men’s guilt or innocence. A seventh man was acquitted in the first trial.