On this day, Sept. 2, in 1988, the murder trial began for the leader of a Chicago street gang who plotted with Libya to bomb U.S. buildings and airplanes and assassinate American politicians.
The El Rukn Tribe seemed like the average criminal enterprise, but the gang had grander designs. Its leader, Jeff Fort, united dozens of other street gangs and presided over meetings from a throne on a pedestal, surrounded by giant posters of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.
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