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NY TimesRetrial Begins for Six Accused in Sears Tower Plot
By KIRK SEMPLE
MIAMI — The retrial of six construction workers accused of conspiring to join forces with Al Qaeda and blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago began on Friday, seven weeks after the jury in the first trial deadlocked on those defendants and acquitted a seventh.
In opening statements, prosecutors and defense lawyers hewed to essentially the same arguments they made in the first trial, the outcome of which was widely regarded as a significant defeat for the government.
Prosecutors insisted on Friday that even though the plot did not evolve beyond initial planning stages, the men avidly sought backing from Al Qaeda and demonstrated a determination to carry out their plan, which purportedly included bombing federal buildings in Miami and waging a ground war on the United States government,
“They had the will, they had the heart, they had the soul to do harm to this country,” Jacqueline M. Arango, an assistant United States attorney, told the jury. “All they needed was funding and assistance, and Al Qaeda was that ticket.”
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Be afraid.
They had will, heart, soul but needed boots.