Beall: Militia Group and Fbi Investigation

beall: A confidential source attended meetings of a militia group called the Kansas Security Force in an investigation of its activities against Muslims in southwestern Kansas, according to Hamilton Spectator. The suspects conspired to detonate a bomb at a Garden City apartment complex where Somali-Americans were among roughly 120 residents, Beall said. Acting U.S. attorney Tom Beall said Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, are members of a small group that calls itself "the Crusaders." The arrests were the culmination of an eight-month FBI investigation that took agents "deep into a hidden culture of hatred and violence," Beall said. The men, who were arrested on Friday morning, performed surveillance of the apartment building and prepared a manifesto, Beall said. Eric Jackson, special agent in charge of the Kansas City, Mo., FBI field office, said the Crusaders has militia and sovereign citizen ties. If convicted, the men could be sentenced to up to life in federal prison without parole. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.