Feds want shoe bomb plotter to testify in Conn. - PallTimes.com (subscription)

Federal prosecutors want a man convicted in a failed 2001 shoe bomb plot to bring down an airplane to testify at the sentencing of two British citizens who pleaded guilty in Connecticut to supporting terrorists through websites.

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