Posted on 05/12/2009 1:01:07 PM PDT by SmithL
MIAMI, (AP) --
Five men were convicted Tuesday of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in hopes of igniting an anti-government insurrection.
The jury in Miami acquitted another member of the so-called "Liberty City Six" in the sixth day of deliberations. Two previous trials ended in mistrials when jurors could not agree on the men's guilt or innocence.
They were arrested in June 2006 on charges of plotting terrorism with an undercover FBI informant they believed was from al-Qaida. Defense attorneys said terrorist talk recorded on dozens of FBI audio and video tapes was not serious and the men wanted only money.
Ringleader Narseal Batiste, 35, was the only one convicted of all four terrorism-related conspiracy counts, including plotting to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to wage war against the U.S. Batiste, who was on the vast majority of FBI recordings, faces up to 70 years in prison.
Batiste's right-hand man, 29-year-old Patrick Abraham, was convicted on three counts and faces 50 years behind bars. Convicted on two counts and facing 30 years are 24-year-old Burson Augustin, 25-year-old Rotschild Augustine and 33-year-old Stanley Grant Phanor. Naudimar Herrera, 25, was cleared of all four charges.
U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard set sentencing for July 27 for the five convicted men, most of whom are Haitian or have Haitian ancestry. They lived in Miami's downtrodden inner-city neighborhood known as Liberty City.
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Let me Guess...The Amish?
No One expects the Amish Inqusistion
Downtrodden?
Main Entry: down·trod·den
Pronunciation: \ˈdau̇n-ˈträ-dən\
Function: adjective
Date: 1595
: suffering oppression
http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/downtrodden
Or there was water dripping in the sink.
What — did Fidel Castro conquer part of Florida?
When the story broke, Geraldo Rivera claimed that the men were set up by the FBI informant who was behind the entire idea...
No One expects the Amish Inqusistion
It's even worse than that. The ringleader is from Bunkie, LA. A terrorist mastermind from Bunkie. Now we've seen it all.
Zero frantically looking for a way to pardon them.....
Maybe they can get tutored by Bill Ayers so they can “be all they can be”...
Why wouldn't he? The ringleader, Batiste, learned his anti-American, anti-white ideology the same place Zero did; Chicago. A couple of peas in a pod, those two.
That may have already happened.
Will this be ignored by the LameStream Media—nationally and in Miami?
Florida ping!
If they didn’t like America- they could have gone back to Haiti!!!!!
LOL!
Bunkie is not the first place I’d look for a terrorist.
I wonder about the quality of a plain ole terrorist from Bunkie, nevermind a ringleader. ;o)
Gerry Rivers needs to get a life-—as soon as he gets some brain cells.
With the speed with with he made the charge, I assume that he was making up the “dialogue” he recited. Maybe he really did hear a tape or see a transcript. But my recollection is that he said “it went something like this” and he gave a volly of “quotes” indicating that the plot was hatched by the FBI, not these poor innocent men who couldn’t shoot straight.
Yes, it is so downtrodden that these pukes immigrated here (probably illegally) in order to join the downtrodden masses there. Miami’s Little Haiti is another Third World hell hole on our shores.
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