Bronx, NY – Federal prosecutors apparently will not claim that four New Yorkers accused of plotting to bomb synagogues were members of a terrorist group.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney David Raskin said at a pretrial hearing Friday that the trial will not be about membership in terrorist organizations. He said it will be about whether the men “were going to blow something up.”
He spoke after the judge ruled that if the prosecution failed to find evidence of ties to terrorist groups, it must share that fact with the defense before trial.
The men are accused of placing what they thought were bombs outside two Bronx synagogues. They are also accused of planning a missile strike against planes at an Air National Guard base in upstate New York.
what an artist! looks like a painting of the 1758 libel case…