Sady characterized one operative as a handsome "warrior- politician" that acted as an older brother figure to the "manipulable and conflicted teenager" and the other as a father figure.
"The government cannot create crime," Sady said. There is "nothing, nothing, nothing you have seen showing he (Mohamud) was preparing, planning or even thinking of such a thing" until he was first contacted by the FBI and then persuaded by the FBI undercover agents posing as Islamic militants, Sady said.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight said that the college student made "a single and remarkable choice" to "take the lives of thousands of people he had never met before."
"The defendant was indeed predisposed" to committing the crime, Knight said. Knight reminded the jury that Mohamud wrote several stories for a radical Islamist online magazine called Jihadist Recollections and was active in radical chat rooms and online forums.
The FBI agents gave Mohamud multiple opportunities to pull out of the plot, Knight argued, but Mohamud showed no hesitation or reluctance, and, running into a friend the morning of the planned attack, told his friend that it was "the greatest morning of my life."
(Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Lisa Shumaker)
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