Posts Tagged ‘al-qaida’

Suspect insists terrorism plot was fake

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, right, exchanges a memorandum of understanding with Lithuanian Ambassador to the U.S. Audrius Bruga, left, Monday, March 17, 2008, during a ceremony at the Homeland Security headquarters in Washington that will make it possible for citizens of Lithuania to visit the U.S. without a visa.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - In a replay of their first trial, the leader of a group accused of plotting to destroy Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices insisted Tuesday that it was all faked in an attempt to con $50,000 out of a man claiming al-Qaida connections.

Via: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News