MIAMI — An unreleased court filing from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Miami, obtained by NBC 6, reveals compelling new details about the investigation into terror suspects arrested earlier this month in Liberty City and charged with plotting to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings and to “wage jihad on America.”

The document also contains information challenging statements that the suspects were entrapped by an FBI confidential witness posing as an al-Qaida operative, according to NBC6 investigative reporter Jeff Burnside.

A judge requested the filing to obtain permission for police to tap phones used by the defendants. The document contained several key assertions, including:

– The two confidential witnesses being used by government investigators had been on the FBI payroll for years as informants in other, unrelated cases, and both lived in the Miami area.
nbc6.net

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