Trial underway of man accused of plotting attack

Published May 28, 2014 11:47pm ET



TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The federal trial of a Florida man accused of plotting terror attacks opened Wednesday with the showing of a “martyr” video of the defendant in the coutroom.

Prosecutors said Sami Osmakac, 27, had planned to wreak havoc in Tampa by blowing up a car bomb outside an Irish pub and then using grenades and an AK-47 to take hostages elsewhere and demand the release of Muslim prisoners before detonating himself with a suicide belt. The defendant was arrested in 2012 after a series of meetings with an undercover FBI agent.

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