HOMELAND SECURITY UPDATE: Man convicted in NY of trying to start terror camp. “The verdict against Oussama Kassir capped a three-week trial that featured the testimony of a U.S.-born Muslim convert who said he tried to create the training camp on 360 acres in Bly, Ore., in 1999. It was one of two victories Tuesday for U.S. terrorism prosecutors. A federal jury in Miami convicted five men of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to topple Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices. A sixth man was acquitted in the case’s third trial.”