As a child, his life was orderly, some close to him say, full of music and art and religion in big-city Chicago, and on a rolling, animal-filled farm near a tiny town in Louisiana.
In his teens, Narseal Batiste wore a red beret, his father said, riding trains and buses in Chicago as a member of the Guardian Angels, the volunteer group that does public-safety patrols in several cities.
Last week, Narseal Batiste, 32, was charged in Miami with being the ringleader of a small Liberty City gang that authorities say had sworn allegiance to Al Qaeda and was searching for weapons to commit terrorist acts.
A federal indictment says that Batiste, 32, Patrick Abraham, 26, Burson Augustin, 21, Rothschild Augustine, 22, Naudimar Herrera, 22, Lyglenson Lemorin, 31, and Stanley Grant Phanor, 31, were determined to wage war against the United States.
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