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FILE - In this June 14, 2010 file courtroom sketch, defendants Onta Williams, left, Laguerre Payen, center in white shirt, David Williams, third from right, and James Cromitie, right, sit with their attorneys at federal court in White Plains, N.Y. Four Muslim men charged with trying to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down military planes will be reunited at their trial with someone who was in on the plot every step of the way_a wire-wearing FBI informant named Shaheed Hussain. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)

New York - A videotape shows the alleged mastermind of a plot to attack New York synagogues and shoot down military planes practicing with a shoulder missile launcher.

The tape played for a jury Tuesday at the Manhattan trial of James Cromitie and three other men capture a paid FBI informant giving him a crash course in a bugged warehouse in Connecticut.

Cromitie says on the tape that learning to shoot seemed “easy.” However, he adds, “I wish you had a blank, so we could take a shot.”

The men have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles to kill U.S. officers and employees.

The defense says the men were entrapped.

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