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A jury in Miami has cleared one man of attempting to bomb FBI offices in the city and to blow up America's tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago. A jury in Miami has cleared one man of attempting to bomb America's tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago.
A mistrial was declared on six other defendants, after the federal jury said it remained deadlocked following seven days of deliberations. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on six other defendants, and the judge declared a mistrial. The government wants to try them again next year.
The seven were accused of being allied with al-Qaeda and wanting to wage a holy war against the US. The jury spent more than week assessing evidence that the defendants were allied with al-Qaeda.
Their lawyers said the charges were the work of government informants. The defendants were known as the Liberty City 7 after the poor area of Miami they operated in.
The acquitted man, Lyglenson Lemorin, buried his face in his hands when the verdict came in.
The prosecution had said he and the others had hoped to forge an alliance to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI offices in Miami and elsewhere as part of a holy war against the US.
But they succeeded only in contacting a paid FBI informant, rather than al-Qaeda itself.
And the defence argued that that they were in fact hapless figures who were either entrapped by the FBI or went along with the plot in order to con the FBI informant out of $50,000 (£34,000).