Friday, June 23, 2006

More on the Sears Tower terror plot

Some more details are creeping in on the group that planned to destroy the Sears Tower, America's tallest building.

As I posted late Thursday night, the jihadists are based in the Liberty City section of Miami, a predominately African-American neighborhood on the city's northern edge.

AP has more:

Benjamin Williams, 17, said the group had young children with them sometimes. Sometimes, he added, the men "would cover their faces. Sometimes they would wear things on their heads, like turbans."

Xavier Smith, who attends the nearby United Christian Outreach, said the men would often come by the church and ask for water.

"They were very private," said Smith, 33. "The spoke with like an accent, sort of a Jamaican accent."

AP quotes Miamian Tashawn Rose, who said of the group, "They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah."

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