A US jury has convicted five men of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower building in Chicago and other US government buildings in 2006.
The guilty verdicts on Tuesday followed a three month trial and two previous trials which had ended in hung juries.
The group's leader, Narseal Batiste, was convicted on four counts of conspiracy and could be jailed for up to 70 years, while the others were convicted on lesser counts of conspiracy and a sixth man was acquitted.
Federal agents arrested the men, who became known as the Liberty City Six after the poor Miami neighbourhood where they met, in June 2006 in the city.
It followed a sting operation by the FBI in a case widely hailed by US authorities at the time as a victory in the then so-called war on terror.
The men are due to be sentenced on July 27.
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