PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A defense attorney for an Oregon terrorism suspect used her cross-examination of an FBI agent on Wednesday to raise the idea that Mohamed Mohamud was a naive, inexperienced teenager manipulated into taking part in a phony plot to detonate a bomb.
The agent, who had posed as an al-Qaida terrorist, was cross-examined by defense attorney Lisa Hay during the third day of testimony in Mohamud’s trial. He acknowledged that Mohamud had trouble with relatively simple tasks, such as renting a storage shed and buying items to be used in the making of the bomb.
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