updated Sat. September 21, 2024
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Voice of America
April 29, 2018
Because of its anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant language, the 2016 election campaign influenced some militiamen to take action. It was around this time that the three men began plotting to blow up the Somali housing complex in Kansas. The men belonged to the Kansas Security Force, which was part of aÃâà...
The Topeka Capital-Journal
April 19, 2018
Federal attorneys contended the men came to be known as “the Crusaders,'' a splinter group of a militia known as the Kansas Security Force. The bombing plot, which had been arranged to occur one day after last November's presidential election, gained national attention. Attorney General Jeff SessionsÃâà...
AOL
April 18, 2018
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.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 18, 2018
The testimony and recordings indicate the men tried to recruit other members of the Kansas Security Force to join them. According to prosecutors, Stein was recorded discussing the type of fuel and fertilizer bomb that Timothy McVeigh used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people.
KMUW
April 4, 2018
Day testified earlier in the trial in Wichita's federal courthouse that he maintained a “persona” as a member of the Kansas Security Force — a militia the men belonged to — but wasn't working to further the plan. James Pratt, Stein's attorney, argued Day went out of bounds. He pointed to a recorded phoneÃâà...
KMUW
April 3, 2018
As an informant, Day posed as a member of the Kansas Security Force militia. He recorded hundreds of hours of phone calls and meetings with the defendants at G&G Home Center, the business owned by Wright. Day told prosecutors that by mid-September, a few weeks before their arrests, the men hadÃâà...
Dodge City Daily Globe
April 2, 2018
Day, dressed in jeans and a green-striped, button-down shirt, said he went along with the plot as part of his “persona” as a Kansas Security Force vetting and intelligence officer. He was recruited as an FBI informant, prosecutors say, after he approached officials with his increasing concerns about theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
January 3, 2018
Prosecutors have argued the men formed a splinter group of the militia Kansas Security Force that came to be known as "the Crusaders." Wright is quoted in a wiretap transcript as saying he hoped the attack on the Somalis would "wake people up" and inspire others to take similar action against Muslims.
New York Magazine
December 12, 2017
She meant Allen, with whom Wright hit it off: He ended up hiring Allen as a salesman at G&G, and together they joined a militia, the Kansas Security Force 3%, which is how they'd become acquainted with Patrick Stein, who was also a member. Militia etiquette has it that you aren't really supposed to be inÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 8, 2017
Prosecutors have argued the men formed a splinter group of the militia Kansas Security Force that came to be known as "the Crusaders." Wright is quoted in a wiretap transcript as saying he hoped the attack would "wake people up" and inspire others to take similar action against Muslims. Stein's formerÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
September 13, 2017
Allen introduced Wright to a group associated with the Kansas Security Force citizen militia that included Stein and a confidential informant, according to the court filing. Some members regularly gathered for Sunday morning coffee to vent their frustrations about then-President Barack Obama, what wouldÃâà...
Southern Poverty Law Center
June 12, 2017
According to an FBI criminal complaint, the “Crusaders” were synonymous with an antigovernment group called the Kansas Security Force, which shares the naming convention of Hill's organization. Following the arrests, Hill told Hatewatch that his militia is “associated” with one Kansas Security ForceÃâà...
Kansas City Star
November 2, 2016
And if you're involved in another group, we don't want you.” There are several Kansas Security Force organizations across the state. One posted a Facebook message after news of the alleged bombing plot broke, saying “the Kansas Security Force (Crusaders) mentioned in the media is not this Group.”.
KWCH
October 17, 2016
The Kansas Security Force (crusaders) mentioned in the media is not this Group." Group member Dawn Henry is from south of Pratt, and she says the group is distancing itself from the three suspects. "We have no intention of violence," she said via phone. She says she has talked with two of the suspectsÃâà...
KWCH
October 15, 2016
The three suspects are part of a militia group called the "Kansas Security Force," according to investigators. Monday, the KANSAS SECURITY FORCE GROUP distanced itself from the suspects, saying it has no intention of violence. Representatives of a NATIONAL MOVEMENTassociated with the KansasÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
April 9, 2016
In Wichita, the would-be protesters have been identified by law enforcement as members of a group or groups calling themselves Kansas Security Force or Forces. Law enforcement officials learned from an FBI terrorism task force that some of the protesters were going to come armed outside the IslamicÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
To underline just how extreme the three were, prosecutors called in other members of the Kansas Security Force. One testified that he quit after hearing about the plot, worried that their “banter” was “turning into something more serious and concrete.” Another said she objected to the plan even though sheÃâà...
