Defense rests in Oregon car-bomb plot trial  — The defense team
of an Oregon man accused of terrorism rested their case Tuesday
after 10 days of testimony from witnesses, including undercover
FBI agents, psychologists and the suspect's parents.  Mohamed
Mohamud, dressed in a brown corduroy jacket, watched the final
defense witness leave the stand late Tuesday afternoon in a
Portland federal courthouse. Attorneys are expected to give
closing arguments Wednesday morning.  The nine-woman, seven-man
jury will decide whether Mohamud is guilty of attempting to
detonate a weapon of mass destruction at a Portland Christmas
tree-lighting in November 2010. His defense team contends that
he was entrapped.  In support of their contention, prosecutors
brought out the undercover FBI agents whom Mohamud thought were
his jihadi co-conspirators. They each testified that Mohamud, 18
years old when they met him, conceived of and helped carry out
the bomb plot.  Mohamud never hesitated, they testified, even
when given a series o