Seven men, living together in a small, windowless warehouse. It was one of many things that made neighbors wonder.
They would exercise late at night on a concrete lot strewn with trash and debris. They sometimes covered their faces and dressed in camouflage. And someone was always standing guard.
"If you walked by, they would chase you away,'' one neighbor said.
"We were under the assumption that they were opening up a karate business,'' added 17-year-old Benjamin Williams.
Authorities said the men were planning something much more sinister: trying to blow up the nation's tallest building, the Sears Tower, and other buildings with help from al-Qaeda. They thought they had contacted someone from the terrorist network, but he was actually an informant for the federal government, officials said.
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