NPR's Melissa Block reports that in New York, the federal trial of 3 men accused of conspiring to blow up a dozen US airliners flying out of Asia has been sent to the jury. The government has introduced computer files showing details of the alleged plot - as well as confessions from two of the defendants, in which they bragged about their plan. The defense has argued the defendants were framed. The lead defendant in the case, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM-zee YOO-seff) acted as his own attorney in the trial. Terrorism experts caution that focusing just on these 3 defendants misses the bigger picture of who might be behind the alleged conspiracy - including the possibility that Yousef was an agent of Iraq.
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