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Chicago's Sears Tower terrorists were looking for help from Al-Queda : FBI
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Jun. 24, 2006

 

A plan hatched by seven men to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings was more aspirational than operational, FBI officials said.

The group of men, who were arrested Thursday when authorities busted their alleged hide-out in a Miami warehouse, had no explosives and lacked adequate funding.

 


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