In Miami, a jailed man accused of leading the so-called Miami 7 has spoken out for the first time since his arrest last June. The man, Narseal Batiste, is one of seven charged with conspiring to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI buildings in five cities. The case has drawn scrutiny because it appears to rest entirely on Batiste’s conversations with an FBI informant posing as a representative of al-Qaeda. The FBI later described the alleged plot as “aspirational rather than operational.” In an open letter, Batiste said his group never had terrorist intentions and only told the informant what he thought the informant wanted to hear so he could solicit money for his religious group.