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CHICAGO (WLS) --
The central Illinois men being held without bond on bomb plot charges are part of an anti-government militia group that "uses guerilla warfare tactics" to take back America.
During online videos that have been linked to the defendants, several masked men pledge allegiance to the "White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia."
According to federal investigators, the 47-year old ringleader Michael Hari enlisted two other residents of Clarence, Illinois--Michael McWhorter, 29 and Joe Morris, 22 in a bombing plot at two Midwestern locations. Last August the trio drove to Bloomington, Minnesota and blew up a mosque there, court records state. Prosecutors say McWhorter told officials the attack was aimed at scaring Muslims into leaving the U.S.
A second, similar device was found last November inside a women's clinic that conducts abortions in downstate Champaign. That bomb never detonated but was eventually traced to the Hari group, investigators said.
A fourth suspect-McWhorter's stepson Ellis Mack, 19-is also being held without bond on a charge of possessing a machine gun. Mack, McWhorter and Hari are scheduled to face preliminary hearings in federal court on Wednesday afternoon.
All four men are believed to have been involved in White Rabbit militia meetings at Hari's business in Clarence.
Illinois bomb suspects burrow in White Rabbit Militia
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The central Illinois men being held without bond on bomb plot charges are part of an anti-government militia group that "uses guerilla warfare tactics" to take back America.
During online videos that have been linked to the defendants, several masked men pledge allegiance to the "White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia."
According to federal investigators, the 47-year old ringleader Michael Hari enlisted two other residents of Clarence, Illinois--Michael McWhorter, 29 and Joe Morris, 22 in a bombing plot at two Midwestern locations. Last August the trio drove to Bloomington, Minnesota and blew up a mosque there, court records state. Prosecutors say McWhorter told officials the attack was aimed at scaring Muslims into leaving the U.S.
A second, similar device was found last November inside a women's clinic that conducts abortions in downstate Champaign. That bomb never detonated but was eventually traced to the Hari group, investigators said.
A fourth suspect-McWhorter's stepson Ellis Mack, 19-is also being held without bond on a charge of possessing a machine gun. Mack, McWhorter and Hari are scheduled to face preliminary hearings in federal court on Wednesday afternoon.
All four men are believed to have been involved in White Rabbit militia meetings at Hari's business in Clarence.
Illinois bomb suspects burrow in White Rabbit Militia
------------------------------------------------
"No Gorka it was not the left that propagated the hate crime."
4 Appalling Facts About Fox News' Latest Hire, Sebastian Gorka
------------------------------------------------
We have our own home grown terrorist who think everyone is after their guns.
Fox news is government media.