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| Three arrested for bomb plot against Somalis in Kansas |
| 2016-10-15 |
| [SouthAfricaToday] Three members of a Kansas militia group were charged Friday with plotting to bomb an apartment complex that’s home to Somali immigrants in the western Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City, a thwarted attack prosecutors say was planned for the day after the November election. The arrests were the culmination of an eight-month FBI investigation that took agents “deep into a hidden culture of hatred and violence,” Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. A complaint unsealed Friday charges Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. Their first court appearance is Monday. The men are members of a small militia group that calls itself “the Crusaders,” and whose members espouse sovereign citizen, anti-government, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist beliefs, according to the complaint. The FBI began a domestic terrorism investigation of the group in February, and a confidential source attended its meetings in southwestern Kansas. In a June meeting, Stein brought up the Orlando nightclub shooting, and proposed carrying out a similar attack against Muslim refugees in Garden City, according to the complaint. They ultimately decided to target the apartment complex because of the number of Somalis who lived there and the fact that one of the apartments was used as a mosque. The complex houses about 120 Somali residents, Beall said. The complaint said that Stein discussed the explosives used in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh. The men, who were arrested in Liberal on Friday morning, performed surveillance of the apartment building and prepared a manifesto, Beall said. In a profanity-laced conference call that law enforcement monitored, Stein said the only way “this country’s ever going to get turned around is it will be a bloodbath,” according to the complaint. If convicted, the men could be sentenced to up to life in federal prison without parole. The case is the latest involving militia groups in the state. Earlier this year, a planned armed protest outside a Wichita mosque prompted the Islamic Society of Wichita to cancel an appearance by a speaker whom protesters believed supported terrorism. The Justice Department’s National Security Division created a new position a year ago to help coordinate investigations into violent homegrown extremism, like the one that resulted in the three arrests. |
| Posted by:SAT2014 |
| #14 Convention. PIMF |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2016-10-15 16:54 |
| #13 " Where does the "confidential source" end, and the "Agent provocateur" begin?" Indeed. It feels like we are repeating the Nixon era. Only this time the courts and the media approve. On a separate note: I fear the unrestrained importation of Muslim immigrants. However I am truly shocked at how well behaved our Lewiston Maine Somalis are. The women that I've talked to speak flawless English and typically wear a colorful headscarf of convection. The biggest hazard is their driving: At a 4-way intersection a Somali woman will always yield no matter what. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2016-10-15 16:52 |
| #12 Let them chew qat. Heh, gotta love a turn of a phrase. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-15 16:08 |
| #11 Ref #10. I like the way this man thinks ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-15 15:39 |
| #10 Following Shabelle and Garowe Online as I do, at this point I'd be pleased as punch if we'd put a fence and a moat (yes, with alligators and sharks with fricking lasers on their foreheads) around Somalia and leave the sad place to its own devices. The one rule being: nobody escapes. Not even to Yemen. I had some sympathy for them in 1992 when GHWB put the Marines in there for a humanitarian mission. Good idea, I thought, we can help that part of the world and it will be to our benefit. 24 years later and my sympathy meter reads zero to six decimal places. The Somalis aren't grateful and don't appreciate what the world has tried to do to help (as foolish as the UN can be and as self-serving as ANISOM clearly is). The refugees here in the US? Well, as swksvolFF points out, they aren't exactly seizing the opportunity, are they. I'm pretty much done with them. Send the refugees back home. Let them all chew qat. Let them all brutalize each other. They don't like us? Good, that makes us even. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-10-15 15:16 |
| #9 Yup. Coffin' on your food. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-10-15 14:19 |
| #8 #5 Forgot TB importation, swksvolFF. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-15 12:57 |
| #7 Where does the "confidential source" end, and the "Agent provocateur" begin? |
| Posted by: nguard 2016-10-15 12:43 |
| #6 did the FBI have a guy on the inside? Maybe making helpful suggestions? Use of a "confidential source" (as mentioned in the article, by the way) is a 'usual' modus operandi. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-10-15 12:06 |
| #5 For the record, every ethnic group out here hates the Somalis. They are an arrogant, rude culture with absolutely no connection with any other ethos. The criminals don't like them because they are competition, the illegals don't like them because they take their jobs, the legals don't like them because they are lazy and incompetent, the blacks don't like them because they hate the American black, the whites don't like them because they camp out at popular businesses as a general nuisance, the Chinese and Laotians are treated as total inferiors. It isn't xenophobia or whatever, it is at least 5 years of data points. People have changed their shopping habits, marketing will tell you this is a big deal. Hell, I don't think the Somalis like it either, if the Somalis have ever been happy about anything. No, I do not condone this charge. I am pointing out that all the other groups, including the Asians (above mentioned plus Thais and Phillipinos) have at least a starting point for interactions. Even the most reluctant of English/Spanish speakers has learned enough of the other's language to at least sign language through an interaction. They all know how to cue for a line. Know how to drive. Work hard. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-10-15 11:52 |
| #4 The timing of this case stinks. The important thing is that tape that the media will incessantly play for the next month. They don't actually need a conviction to drag Hillary across the finish line. BTW, did the FBI have a guy on the inside? Maybe making helpful suggestions? |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2016-10-15 09:45 |
| #3 Kansas was it? A historical coincidence indeed. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-15 08:17 |
| #2 The men are members of a small militia group that calls itself “the Crusaders,” and whose members espouse sovereign citizen, anti-government, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist beliefs, according to the complaint. I've got news for you... Those are not extremist beliefs. If the FBI can't prove intent, well then.... |
| Posted by: Bubba Unineger6337 2016-10-15 08:14 |
| #1 So it appears they didn't actually do anything beyond a vague conspiracy. But they will still go down big time. Cos the powers that be need this. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-10-15 04:27 |