By Prensa Latina
Washington : A Federal Jury in Florida resumed deliberation on the trial of six men accused of planning terrorist attacks in the US.
The media comments that the debates may reach a blind alley as it happened last December when the court did not reach a decision.
Jeffrey Agron, head of the jury of the first hearing of 2007, said the attorneys will deal this time with the same mitigating circumstances the Defense Ministry submitted: it is not a terrorist plot but a conspiracy to swindle.
The detainees were not planning to set up a criminal organization, they just sought easy money from an FBI informer.
The Federal prosecution reminded that the defendants are charged with terrorism and were led with a self-appointed divine messenger whose mission was to topple the US government.
Judge Richard Gregorie said Narseal Batiste recruited five men at the slums of Miami to blow Sears Towers, in Chicago, and other government buildings.
If convicted, they may face up to 70 years in prison because they are also tried for seeking alliance with Al-Qaeda. They were trapped by an FBI informer that faked to be an agent of Osama Bin Laden that promised money.
At the previous trial, one was declared not guilty nor the jury produced a verdict for the others.