FBI Says 7 Terror Suspects Were Mostly Talk

The Miami CBS affiliate, WFOR-TV, filmed the warehouse interior through a hole in a corrugated aluminum shutter, showing a brown sofa and dining set. It appeared to be the same room shown in photos that Acosta's office released from a surveillance tape of the suspects, time-stamped shortly after 10 p.m. March 16 -- one of a dozen meetings mentioned in the indictment.

The seven charged are Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin and Rotschild Augustine of Miami and Lyglenson Lemorin of Atlanta.

Acosta indicated that further arrests were not expected. "I'm confident we have identified every individual who had the intent of posing a threat to the United States," he said.

Five of the Miami suspects -- it was unclear why Phanor was not among them -- appeared Friday at a brief hearing to determine whether they needed a public defender. Lemorin was arraigned in Atlanta. Relatives of Lemorin told reporters he had gone to Miami to find work but had returned months ago after discovering the men he had befriended were involved in witchcraft. Several of the suspects are of Haitian origin, a culture with voodoo influences.

According to the 11-page indictment, Batiste recruited the others and, around November, expressed interest to the informant in assisting Al Qaeda. The informant allegedly met with Batiste on Dec. 16 and was given a list of materials "needed in order to wage jihad" -- including boots, uniforms, machine guns, radios and vehicles.

Six days later the two reportedly met again, and Batiste allegedly outlined his mission to wage war against the U.S. government and to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago and public buildings in Miami.

He gave the informant a list with his and five of the other men's shoe sizes, and soon received the military boots. Batiste repeatedly discussed five fellow "soldiers" with the informant, the indictment said. The only mention of Phanor in court papers was as a driver for the informant to a meeting in the Florida Keys. Batiste later asked for binoculars, bulletproof vests, firearms and $50,000 in cash, according to the indictment.

During meetings this year, Batiste said he wanted to wage war against the United States to "kill all the devils we can" in a mission that would "be just as good or greater than 9/11," the indictment says.