Published: 2016 October 17 08:36:26 (8049 Views)

Three men have been accused of plotting to target immigrants with a huge terror attack.

Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, are accused of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in Garden City, Kansas.

The men are members of a small group of white supremacists who calls themselves the Crusaders.

Members espouse sovereign citizen, anti-government, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist beliefs, according to the complaint.

The suspects allegedly planned to detonate truck bombs around a small apartment complex where about 120 Somali residents live.



Prosecutors also said the men talked about attacking some of the area churches that have helped settle refugees and helped them get jobs at Tyson Foods, the meat packing company that has attracted a diverse immigrant population to the area.

Hundreds of Somalians, Malaysians, Burmese and others gathered around FBI agents and law enforcement officers for a briefing early Saturday.

'The only answer I can give you about why this happened is that they wanted to attack your religious beliefs,' Police Chief Michael Utz said.

'But you need to know that whether you are an immigrant or not, you are all Garden Citians.'

'Some of you have said you can't go to your mosque to pray, or that you can't go to your homes because you are afraid,' Utz said. 'But we and the sheriff and the FBI are here to say that you are safe in Garden City, and safe in the United States of America.'



Source - Metro

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