] In a late Tuesday night court filing, the department told
] U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen it supports the Detroit
] defendants' request for a new trial and would no longer
] pursue terrorism charges against them. The defendants at
] most would only face fraud charges at a new trial.

Now here's a strange case. For those who have been reading me in the past, they know I mentioned this case before, and there, the local prosecutors absolutely blasted the Justice Department for not only not providing help, but doing everything it seemed they could do to hinder the local office. What's next? Who knows.

A better question might be, why did they drag their feet eartlier and are now trying to throw out what was done? This sure doesn't sound like the sort of thing we expect from the Ashcroft Justice Department so what's the ulterior motive behind tossing this one which was originally touted as a great case in the "War on Terror?"

Yahoo! News - U.S. Seeks to Throw Out Terror Convictions