Democracy for Vancouver

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Three men accused of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to attack U.S. and allied troops met only once during the two years an undercover informant investigated them, the informant testified Wednesday.

The informant, Darren Griffin, is the key witness in the case against Mohammad Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi and Wassim Mazloum, who are charged with conspiring to kill or maim people outside the United States.

Under defense questioning, Griffin testified that as far as he knew the men never practiced shooting guns together or watched training videos together. He said they did do that individually with him.

Amawi’s attorney, Timothy Ivey, asked Griffin why he never talked about any e-mails between the defendants. “I only received very few,” Griffin said.

Griffin said he never saw any e-mails from the men that discussed plotting to kill soldiers.
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Amawi and El-Hindi are U.S. citizens, and Mazloum came to the U.S. legally from Lebanon. El-Hindi was born in Jordan, and Amawi was born in the U.S. but also has Jordanian citizenship.

They face a maximum of life in prison if convicted.

Can you say “entrapment”?

I hope the Toledo jury can.

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