Fleeing man caught at Chicago courthouse CHICAGO - A federal courthouse was locked down for more than three hours Thursday while authorities searched for a man who was scheduled to appear in court but fled after he learned of a warrant for his arrest. Rogers, 38, was accused of lying to federal agents about the shooting death of an informant. He had showed up in court after his status hearing was over, and left immediately after his attorney told him U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan had issued the bench warrant.

Sometimes, the timing of these 'events' is just too good to be true. Why...this exonerates at least a dozen admin crimes and violations.

Timing, timing, timing.

no surprise it was in Florida

Then you could have insisted they failed to prevent the attack when they already knew it was going to happen..

The New York Times Section A; Page 1; Column 4; Metropolitan Desk October 28, 1993, Thursday, Late Edition ,,, Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast. "Do you deny," Mr. Salem says he told the other agent, "your supervisor is the main reason of bombing the World Trade Center?" Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev did not deny it. "We was handling the case perfectly well until the supervisor came and messed it up, upside down." The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said. The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court in that attack. Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, was used by the Government to penetrate a circle of Muslim extremists now charged in two bombing cases: the World Trade Center attack and a foiled plot to destroy the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels and other New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the second bombing case, but his work for the Government was erratic, and for months before the trade center blast, he was feuding with the F.B.I. ...article at LibertyPost.org

Steven, considering the terror suspects get a good deal more presumption of innocence than, say, lacrosse players, the length of time it takes to fight off lefties in order to get a case put together extends.

The terrorists have landed. Black Muslims no less.

I, for one, am grateful that these people will be behind bars for a long long time

I, for one, am grateful that these people will be behind bars for a long long time

some people's quick leap to defend these guys is disheartening

These knuckleheads wanted their "contact" guy to provide them with "boots and uniforms" (among other things).

There are many incongruities surrounding the arrest of seven men from the impoverished Liberty City neighborhood of Miami on charges of conspiracy to "wage war on the United States" that suggest it, like so many previous "terrorist plots" announced by the Bush administration, is a government-inspired provocation mounted for reactionary political ends. None of the claims made by the government and repeated uncritically by the media concerning the arrest of these young working-class men can be accepted as good coin. Both the flimsiness of the criminal indictment and the lurid headlines surrounding it mark this event as an escalation in the anti-democratic conspiracies of the Bush administration. There is every indication that this latest purported terrorist threat--described by some media outlets as "even bigger than September 11"--was manufactured by the FBI, which used an undercover agent posing as a terrorist mastermind to entrap those targeted for arrest.

The group apparently did little to inspire fear in the Liberty City neighborhood where they took up residence. A close family friend and a distance cousin of Stanley Grant Phanor described the leader of the group, Narseal Batiste, as a "Moses-like figure" who would roam the streets in a cape or bathrobe, toting a crooked wooden cane and looking for young men to join his group.

Ask the liberal media that leaked how we were tracking him?