By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO

ATLANTA – One of seven men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower has admitted swearing allegiance to al-Qaida and told investigators he and the others planned to bomb five FBI buildings, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Lyglenson Lemorin, a Haitian national, also admitted to attending military training in Miami and other parts of Florida to carry out the mission, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Getchell said during Lemorin’s hearing before a U.S. magistrate.

Lemorin is one of seven men suspected in the terror plot who were arrested last week on conspiracy charges at the group’s alleged hideout in a Miami warehouse. The indictment against the men alleges Batiste planned an attack he said would be “as good or greater than 9/11,” although authorities say his group had no explosives and lacked adequate funding.

According to Getchell, Batiste was planning to take down the Sears Tower with dynamite. Batiste allegedly said he had worked in Chicago for a delivery firm and could count on former employees there to help plan the attack through the tunnel system in Chicago, Getchell said.