Oct. 18, 2016
White Terror Group Arrested on Eve of Attack on U. S.-Somalis
(TriceEdneyWire.com/GIN) – Three White American men are under arrest and charged with plotting to blow up an apartment complex and mosque in a suburb of Kansas inhabited by refugees from war-torn Somalia.
The three - Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 51, and Patrick Stein, 47 - are charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction – a charge that carries a sentence of life in jail.
If the plot had succeeded, some 120 Somali residents could have been killed.
Mada Jama, a Somalian who works at Tyson Foods told radio station KWCH that he's always felt welcomed in Garden City.
"I see White people at Tyson, at the gas station, everywhere, and everyone is my friend," he said. "I don't know what's going on here."
Former Garden City Mayor and candidate for state senate, John Doll, said he was told he was one of the targets discussed by the three men accused in the plot.
"This is terrible, because these people they targeted are great people; they work hard, pay taxes, obey the laws," he said. "Why would anyone want to hurt them?"
Halima Farah, 26, lives in the targeted complex. She said news of the plot rocked the Somali community of about 500 people in the western Kansas city of about 25,000.
"It was so scary," she told USA TODAY. "Garden City is small and peaceful. I love living there. I didn't think something like that could happen here."
According to an affidavit, the three were a part of a group called the Kansas Security Force and the Crusaders.
According to the Washington Post, the “Crusaders” knew they wanted to kill Muslims and use the “bloodbath” to ignite a religious war — but for months they couldn’t settle on a plan.
The easiest way would be to grab guns, go to the predominantly Somali-Muslim apartment complex they’d been surveilling and start kicking in doors, court documents said. They would spare no one, not even babies.
In the end, they decided to set off bombs similar to the one Timothy McVeigh used in 1995 to kill 168 people in Oklahoma City. They planned to strike after the Nov. 8 election, investigators said.
The plan was undone by an FBI confidential informant and Allen’s girlfriend, who showed authorities Allen’s supply room after he allegedly hit her during a fight.
The men's arrest comes after an eight month long investigation.
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