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Vol. 72/No. 20      May 19, 2008

 
Second mistrial declared in
Miami ‘terror’ frame-up
 
BY BERNIE SENTER  
MIAMI—A mistrial was declared April 16 in the case of a Miami group accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to blow up the Chicago Sears Tower and federal government buildings. This is the second time prosecutors have been unable to persuade a jury that six Liberty City defendants were guilty in what FBI Deputy Director John Pistole called nearly two years ago “yet another important victory in the war on terrorism.”

The government’s case was built on testimony of paid FBI agent provocateurs who videotaped and recorded conversations in which they tried to entrap the defendants.

The defendants are members of a religious sect living in Miami’s Liberty City, a Black community in Miami.

In the first trial Lyglenson Lemorin was acquitted. Despite being a legal U.S. resident, Lemorin now faces deportation to Haiti because the government is attempting to try him in immigration court on the same charges he was cleared of.

The judge has given prosecutors until April 23 to decide whether to try to obtain a conviction for a third time. Meanwhile, the seven remain in prison, where they have been since their June 2006 arrest.  
 
 
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