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RESCUE CREWS SEARCHED BOATS,
HELICOPTER, AND K9S BUT WERE
NOT ABLE TO FIND THE 20-YEAR- OLD.
THE PROSECUTION WITNESS IN
THE TRIAL OF THREE TERROR
SUSPECTS TOOK THE STAND THIS AFTERNOON.
HE WAS INITIALLY TRYING TO
JOIN ISIS BUT IN JANUARY OF
2015, HE BECAME AN FBI INFORMANT.
HE SECRETLY RECORDED
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE THREE
DEFENDANTS AS WELL AS A NUMBER
OF OTHER YOUNG MEN WHO PLED
GUILTY IN THE PLOT.
MURPHY WAS IN FEDERAL COURT
TODAY.
I KNOW THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT
WITNESS.
HE IS THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION.
THE MOST IMPORTANT WITNESS.
HE TOOK THE STAND ABOUT 4:00
THIS AFTERNOON.
HE WAS VERY SLENDER.
VERY SOFT SPOKEN.
HE WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY ASKED
BY A PROSECUTOR HAD HE EVER
TRIED TO JOIN A TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION.
HE IMMEDIATELY REPLIED YES AND
THAT THAT ORGANIZATION WAS
ISIS.
HIS TESTIMONY IS ABSOLUTELY
CONSIDERED CRITICAL IN THIS CASE.
NOT ONLY WAS HE PART OF THE
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BUT THE
SECRET TAPE RECORDINGS OF THE
OTHER CONSPIRATORS ARE
CONSIDERED CRITICAL EVIDENCE.
BECAUSE ACCORDING TO QUOTES IN
COURT DOCUMENTS WE'LL HEAR THE
DEFENDANTS ADMIT TO THE
CONSPIRACY ON THESE TAPES.
HE BECAME ATTRACTED TO JIHAD BY
WATCHING ISIS PROPAGANDA VIDEOS.
HE LEFT MINNESOTA IN MARCH OF
2014 AND DIED FIGHTING FOR ISIS THAT SUMMER.
HE WAS FRIENDS WITH DOUGLAS
MCCAIN WHO DIED FIGHTING FOR
ISIS IN 2014.
FAMILY MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS
OF THE DEFENDANTS EXPRESS THEIR
ANGER WITH BASHIR.
SHE SAW A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS
HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE
GOVERNMENT AND VERY WELL COACHED.
AND THAT THROUGH AN
INTERPRETER WAS IYAN FARA THE
MOTHER OF ONE OF THE THREE DEFENDANTS HERE.
ANOTHER ONE OF HER SONS HAS
PLED GUILTY IN THIS CASE.
YOU HEARD IYAN REFER TO THE
FACT THAT BASHIR HAS BEEN PAID.
LAST WE HEARD, AND IT WAS LAST YEAR.
HE HAD BEEN PAID $40,000 BY THE
FBI SINCE HE BEGAN COOPERATING
WITH THE GOVERNMENT IN THIS CASE.
THAT FIGURE WILL ALMOST
CERTAINLY BE HIGHER.
I'M SURE WE'LL HEAR IT.
BASHIR WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE
ON THE STAND ALL DAY TOMORROW.
PROBABLY ALL DAY FRIDAY AS WELL.
NOT ONLY IS IT HIS TESTIMONY,
BUT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HEAR