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Sears Tower attack plot: men guilty

A federal jury in Miami has convicted five men of plotting with al Qaida to topple Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in hopes of igniting an anti-government insurrection.

A sixth man was acquitted after six days of deliberations in the third trial of the Liberty City Six.

The first two trials ended in mistrials when jurors could not agree on the men's guilt or innocence and a seventh man was acquitted in the first trial.

The men were arrested in June 2006 on charges of plotting terrorism with an undercover FBI informant they thought was from al Qaida.

Defence attorneys said terrorist talk recorded on dozens of FBI tapes was not serious and the men wanted only money.

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