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Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
April 23, 2018
April 16: Nigerian troops killed four militia members in Guma, Benue. April 18: Herdsmen killed four construction workers in Bassa, Plateau. April 18: Cultists killed four in Emuoha, Rivers. April 19: Nigerian troops killed one Boko Haram militant in Ngala, Borno. April 20: Bandits killed thirty in Maru, Zamfara.
New York Times
April 16, 2018
WICHITA, Kan. — The militia members talked about attacks on President Barack Obama and members of Congress, a federal agent recounted in court. They discussed burning down churches whose members helped refugees settle in western Kansas. They mulled killing landlords who rented to Muslims.
Vanguard
April 13, 2018
According to a recorded audio received by an eye witness, a government official (name witheld) unwittingly confirmed the killings of innocent civilians by militias group sponsored by political thugs. The protest today demanding the removal of the Army over their refusal to release two youths earlier arrestedÃâà...
KAKE
March 29, 2018
A former militia member turned FBI informant took the stand in Federal Court in the Garden City bomb plot trial. Curtis Allen, Patrick ... Also, there were audio recording from meetings where the defendants were trying to recruit new members to its militia group, Kansas Security Force. Day testified it took theÃâà...
KWCH
March 28, 2018
The informant said the men picked the apartment complex in Garden City because it had a high concentration of Muslims, and they could do the most damage. He talked about surveillance the militia members would do watching Somalis and following them while armed. He said the militia believed SomalisÃâà...
The Daily Progress
March 28, 2018
Two League of the South leaders agree to court order barring group's militia-like activity in Charlottesville ... 12 rally, videos and images of the event showed members of the League of the South and the Traditionalist Worker Party charging with shields and flagpoles into a line of counter-protesters outside ofÃâà...
Martinsville Bulletin
March 28, 2018
Two pro-Confederate leaders agree to court order barring group's militia-like activity in Charlottesville ... 12 rally, videos and images of the event showed members of the League of the South and the Traditionalist Worker Party charging with shields and flagpoles into a line of counterprotesters outside ofÃâà...
The Hill
March 27, 2018
Several members of the militia, which has been integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard, are self-avowed neo-Nazis. But a spokesman for the group has defended it, telling USA Today in 2015 that only 10 to 20 percent of recruits are neo-Nazis and that those people do not represent the official ideologyÃâà...
Tri-City Herald
March 27, 2018
(1) the organized militia which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of [those groups].” There is no reference to any equality between the two classes. The Second Amendment states, “A wellÃâà...
hays Post
March 26, 2018
Benson said the Kansas Security Force had three divisions in the state, and the militia's purpose was to provide security in the event of natural disaster or a governmental breakdown in which first responders were not available. Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen are charged with conspiracy to useÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2018
Stein is one of three members of a militia group are set to stand trial on charges alleging they were plotting to bomb a mosque and a southwestern Kansas apartment complex IN 2016 where Somali refugees live. Gavin Wright, Stein and Curtis Allen have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy toÃâà...
NPR
March 21, 2018
Three militia members accused of plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex in southwest Kansas go on trial Tuesday in Wichita. Their alleged plot, discovered in 2016, laid bare tiny pockets of potentially violent racism in a region that's drawn immigrants from across the world to tough meatpackingÃâà...
HuffPost
March 21, 2018
WICHITA, Kansas ― Jury selection begins here Tuesday in the trial of three militia members arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack against Muslims in southwest Kansas. Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen were arrested in an FBI sting a few weeks before the 2016 presidentialÃâà...
WLS-TV
March 20, 2018
"We need you to come and stand with us" states one of the speakers on video, encouraging militia members and other anti-government extremists that believe there is a conspiracy underway to take guns from Americans and enslave them-part of the so-called "Follow the White Rabbit" conspiracy theory.
WSPA.com
March 20, 2018
Prosecutors have said that a militia member tipped off federal authorities after becoming alarmed by the escalating talk of violence and later agreed to wear a wire as a paid informant. The government's case features months of profanity-laced recordings in which militia members discussed plans andÃâà...
90.5 WESA
March 19, 2018
As an elementary school choir sang inside the Capitol rotunda on Friday, a group of men and women clad in military fatigues, carrying walkie talkies and AR-15s, gathered just outside. “We live in a society where we give lazy kids who come in eighth place trophies,” shouted one man, who left before givingÃâà...
Global Times
March 19, 2018
China should send more militia missions to safeguard territorial sovereignty and the marine rights and interests in the South China Sea, a national legislator said. ... The militia has 128 members and around 12 ships equipped with the GPS system, BeiDou navigation system and maritime satellite phone.
Atlanta Black Star
March 19, 2018
Prosecutors have said that a militia member tipped off federal authorities after becoming alarmed by the escalating talk of violence and later agreed to wear a wire as a paid informant. The government's case features months of profanity-laced recordings in which militia members discussed plans andÃâà...
WSKG.org
March 19, 2018
The Lightfoot Militia is one of several in Pennsylvania; they're frequently seen at right wing events in and around Pennsylvania. They came out in force the last time President Donald Trump visited Harrisburg last summer, and also went to Charlottesville, Virginia for a white supremacist rally that ultimatelyÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 18, 2018
It was gathered that the militia men upon sighting troops opened fire on them and the troops reacted immediately by engaging the militia men. “At the end of the encounter, four militias were killed,” Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, Director Army Public Relations, said in a statement sent to DAILY POST onÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
March 18, 2018
Prosecutors have said that a militia member tipped off federal authorities after becoming alarmed by the escalating talk of violence and later agreed to wear a wire as a paid informant. The government's case features months of profanity-laced recordings in which militia members discussed plans andÃâà...
witf.org
March 16, 2018
Militia members, other gun rights advocates rally in Harrisburg. Written by ... Carrying an AR-15, a militia member addresses a crowd in front of the state Capitol building. (Photo by ... Christian Yingling wore a patch on his camouflage jacket declaring him part of the Pennsylvania Lightfoot Militia. He's fromÃâà...
BBC News
March 16, 2018
Four members of the US special forces were killed in last year's raid. An offshoot of the Islamic State (IS) group said it carried out the attack. In a statement, the MSA-GATIA militia group said it captured the materiel from unidentified "armed bandits" on the Mali side of the border with Niger in fighting earlierÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
March 16, 2018
As the FBI and local enforcement zeroed in on a group of central Illinois men suspected of bombing a Bloomington mosque, the men pleaded for other militia members to help "guard" their rural town of a few dozen people. "Please come and support us in Clarence, Illinois," their leader, who appears to beÃâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
March 16, 2018
Less than a week earlier, Hari's organization — the White Rabbit 3 Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia, also known as the White Rabbits — posted a YouTube video in which its ski-mask-wearing members requested other militia groups across the nation join them in helping them "take our townÃâà...
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
March 15, 2018
That is why the amendment protects “the right of the people,” and not just “the right of militia members.” The right isn't restricted to only those in one of the militias. For those extremist hoplophobes who make the absurd claim that the word “militia” refers to the active-duty military: why would the founders needÃâà...
Jamaica Gleaner
March 15, 2018
Police in Brazil say they have arrested nine people suspected of belonging to a paramilitary militia group in one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent ... Groups of militias operating in many of Rio's slums are said to be made up of active and former police, firefighters, private security and off-duty prison guards.
RadioFarda
March 13, 2018
In all universities the Baseej have a presence and students can enroll as members. They are used to oppose dissident students and disrupt their events. Former student movement activist Ali Afshari told Radio Farda's Baktash Khamsehpour that the gathering took place in protest to the security atmosphereÃâà...
The Hans India
March 13, 2018
All the members are in the age group between 20 to 25 years and all are native of Koyyuru mandal in Agency. The nine members joined in the group about five years ago, after allegedly threatening warnings from the PLGA Commander Kudumula Venkata Rao alias Ravi and Galikonda Area CommitteeÃâà...
The Guardian
March 13, 2018
They are members of the National Militia, an ultranationalist organisation closely linked to Ukraine's Azov movement, a far-right group with a military wing ... “There's nothing inherently wrong with national socialism as a political idea,” says Alexei, another militia member, as the men move stealthily throughÃâà...
The Hindu
March 12, 2018
Four militia members of the Pedabayalu Area Committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) were arrested by the district police at Paderu in the Agency area of the district on Saturday. The four militia members -- V. Malleswara Rao, V. Venkata Rao, Killo Chinna Rao and Chikudu Rambabu, all native of PedabyaluÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
March 9, 2018
A YouTube video depicting members of a militia group shooting at and eventually blowing up a miniature replica of a mosque has been removed after it was recently uncovered by a Muslim American advocacy organization. The video, posted on YouTube about 18 months ago, showed members of theÃâà...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
March 9, 2018
I would think that the state militia should permit its members in good standing to keep for personal use a handgun and a shotgun; they could also keep their hunting rifles at home during hunting season (why would they need those rifles outside of hunting season?). But military-grade weapons would have toÃâà...
Valley News Live
March 9, 2018
CAIR-Minnesota calls on Feds to probe video showing North Dakota Militia members destroying fake mosque ... Relations (CAIR) called for a state and federal investigation of a recently discovered video showing members of the North Dakota Security Force III& shooting at and destroying a replica mosque.
Bemidji Pioneer
March 8, 2018
Muslim group calls for probe of video reportedly showing ND militia shooting at fake mosque. By Ryan Johnson Today at 3:00 p.m. ... MINNEAPOLIS—A Muslim civil rights group is calling for an investigation into a video that it says showed North Dakota militia members shooting at and blowing up a model of a mosque.
goskagit.com
March 8, 2018
As for what a well-regulated militia is, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives to Congress the authority “To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, theÃâà...
The News Tribune
March 8, 2018
Those key words state the only named purpose of the right: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.” ... anyone who wishes to purchase anything more than a single-shot sports hunting firearm must show that they are a member in good standing of a “well regulated militia.
Juneau Empire
March 8, 2018
House Bill 152, sponsored by House Majority Leader Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage, failed 20-18 with two members absent. Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, D-Anchorage, is recovering from medical complications due to a pulmonary embolism, and the seat representing House District 38 has not been re-filled since theÃâà...
The Independent
February 28, 2018
But his proposal comes at a time when President Donald Trump is advocating arming teachers with firearms, as educators “love our students and will protect them,” Trump said in a tweet Saturday. Rhodes is calling on the tens of thousands of members of his militia group to work unpaid, rotating shifts atÃâà...
Miami New Times
February 27, 2018
The "Three Percenters" is a separate militia closely aligned with Oath Keepers. Though members repeatedly deny they support outright white nationalism and are instead just hard-core libertarians, the militias are often allied with white supremacists and tend to appear at the same rallies and events.
HuffPost
February 26, 2018
In the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a far-right armed militia group called the Oath Keepers is urging its members to station themselves outside of schools ... In Indiana, at least one member of the group, Mark Cowan, stationed himself outside of a Fort Wayne high school last week.
WSB Atlanta
February 15, 2018
BROWARD COUNTY, Ga. - The leader of a white nationalist militia says Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group and participated in paramilitary drills in Tallahassee. Jordan Jereb told The Associated Press on Thursday that his group wants Florida to become its own whiteÃâà...
WPLG Local 10
February 15, 2018
Members must also be true to "(their) people even when nobody is looking." Officials with the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights watchdog, told ABC News that Nikolas Cruz, 19, was brought into the group by another member and participated in at least one ROF training exercise in the Tallahassee area.
FOX31 Denver
February 15, 2018
PARKLAND, Fla. — The leader of a white nationalist militia said Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group and participated in paramilitary drills in Tallahassee. Jordan Jereb said Thursday that his group, the Republic of Florida, wants Florida to become its own whiteÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
In a report published last week, Smyth chronicled increasing militia hostility toward U.S. forces in northern Syria that goes beyond the normal invective. He noted that ... 2,'” says Renad Mansour, an Iraqi-based researcher for Chatham House who has spoken with leaders and members of pro-Iranian militias.
SaharaReporters.com
December 31, 1999
Nigerian Army says its troops killed four of the 20 militia they encountered during a patrol at Teguma village in Guma Local Government Area of Benue on Monday. While announcing this in a statement on Tuesday, Brig.-Gen Texas Chukwu, the Director of Army Public Relations, however, said otherÃâà...
AOL
December 31, 1999
Three Kansas militia members were found guilty Wednesday of plotting to bomb an apartment complex housing Somali refugees they called "cockroaches." Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen were convicted of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights.
McPherson Sentinel
December 31, 1999
WICHITA (AP) — Three militia members plotted for months to blow up an apartment complex housing Somali immigrants in western Kansas, saying that they wanted to "exterminate ... The three men were indicted in October 2016 after a militia member, Dan Day, became alarmed and contacted the FBI.
ThinkProgress
December 31, 1999
According to prosecutors, the trio plotted out a full-scale assault on the community, specifically targeting a mosque and an apartment complex. The men were all members of a militia splinter group called “The Crusaders.” If they'd been successful, it “could have been the deadliest domestic terror attack sinceÃâà...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
Far-right militia groups in the U.S. had new targets: Muslims. They were watching and plotting attacks against mosques. One group in Mississippi had discussed kidnapping and beheading a Muslim, then posting a video of the murder online. The increasing Islamophobia of these domestic extremists, theÃâà...
