[ST. LOUIS Post Dispatch] Two men indicted last week on federal weapons charges allegedly had plans to bomb the Gateway Arch -- and to kill St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson -- the Post-Dispatch has learned.
Sources close to the investigation were uncertain whether the men had the capability to carry out the plans, although the two allegedly did buy what they thought was a pipe bomb in an undercover law enforcement sting.
The men wanted to acquire two more bombs, the sources said, but could not afford to do it until one suspect's girlfriend's Electronic Benefit Transfer card was replenished.
| Gov't financed anarchy and murder, why should we not be surprised. |
| You didn't expect them to pay for the bomb-making materials themselves, did you? What kind of socialist are you? |
| These were the New Black Panther lads, if I recall correctly. Let us be grateful that government assistance is so debilitating to independent action. A proper terrorist would have at that point financed his efforts by robbing a church poor box or kidnapping the pastor for ransom. |
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