Miami bomb plot suspects "entrapped," lawyers say

Seven men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI building in Miami were entrapped by a federal informant, lawyers for two of the suspects said on Monday.

Oh please. 

An indictment issued last week accused the men of pledging loyalty to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda and seeking the group’s support to "wage war" against the U.S. government.

The person they thought was an al Qaeda representative was actually an FBI informant, U.S. Justice Department officials said.

Albert Levin, the court-appointed attorney for suspect Patrick Abraham, said he believes his client was ensnared by the informant.

Sure…I bet it went like this:

• Suspect:  Are you with Al Qaeda?
• Agent:  Yep
• Suspect:  I wanna blow something UP, can you help me?
• Agent:  Sure, will you pledge your loyalty to Osama?
• Suspect:  You bet. (makes oath)
• Agent:  Congrats you are one of us now.  Praise Allah.
• Suspect:  Cool.  Can I have a bomb now?
• Agent:  Sure…I will bring one right over…I am dressed in a blue jacket that says FBI on it.
• Suspect:  Isn’t that the…
• Agent:  Yes, but it’s ok.  We use them to fool the cops.
• Suspect:  Man you guys are smart. 

Yea…twisted his arm out of the socket I betcha.

There was "a lot of talking going on by the informant and more listening by the defendant and or the defendants," Levin told Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly.

Nathan Clarke, a lawyer for another suspect Rotschild Augustine, agreed.

"With respect to my client, from what I can read in the indictment, there’s going to be a question of whether there’s even sufficient evidence to sustain the burden of proof on conviction," Clarke said.

"If by any chance there’s a scintilla of that then, of course, there’s going to be the entrapment issue," he said.