Would-Be Bombers Say FBI Set Them Up

"A federal judge appeared receptive to defense attorneys' claims that the FBI entrapped the four men convicted in October of planning to blow up synagogues in the Bronx and use missiles to shoot down military planes at Stewart Air National Guard Base. 'The FBI did not infiltrate a plot,' U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said at a Thursday hearing. 'There was no plot.'"