A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two members of the 2nd American Militia who allegedly conspired to “start a war” with the U.S. Border Patrol and murder the agency’s officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents.
The leader of an armed, right-wing militia that was stopping migrants at the southern border was “training” his group to assassinate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Soros, an FBI agent said in court papers.
The FBI on Saturday arrested the leader of an armed militia that was detaining undocumented immigrants at the southern border.
The anti-Muslim militia group in Kansas that is accused of conspiring to bomb an apartment where 120 Somali immigrants lived was exposed when one of its members contacted the FBI.
The FBI had conducted an 8-month investigation into a militant group that culminated in the arrest of three men accused of conspiring to kill countless Muslim immigrants in Kansas.
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has turned into a crime scene at a time when land managers must prepare to open the 300-square-mile area.
It was smart to involve those seen as sympathetic to the protest’s cause, such as a gun-toting Nevada legislator.
Some occupants remained in the refuge after the confrontation with authorities, who had hoped to end a three-week standoff.
