MILWAUKEE - A man accused of plotting a mass shooting in defence of Islam at a Masonic temple in downtown Milwaukee will try to convince jurors at his trial starting Wednesday that FBI informants encouraged him for months to purchase weapons for the attack. The FBI has said their agents thwarted an act of terrorism when they arrested Hamzeh in January 2016. Hamzeh spent two years in jail awaiting trial before a judge in July 2018 allowed him to live with his parents pending trial. That’s how Hamzeh and the informants settled on Milwaukee’s Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Temple as a target. Defence attorneys argue the FBI induced Hamzeh to buy weapons by offering them at cheaper price and after months of indoctrination.

Source: thestar October 22, 2019 18:00 UTC