Militia Group Leader Guilty Of Minnesota Mosque Pipe Bomb Attack

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Michael Hari was found guilty on Wednesday of being the mastermind behind an attack on a Minnesota mosque.

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In interviews with federal agents following his arrest in 2018, McWhorter said the three were also behind the attempted bombing of a women’s health clinic in Champaign, Ill., just three months after the Bloomington bombing.

In court, prosecutors argued Hari and the others formed an anti-government militia group called the White Rabbits. As its leader, Hari wrote a manifesto known as «The White Rabbit Handbook and recorded a series of xenophobic YouTube videos under the handle «Illinois Patriot. In one post recorded days before his arrest in November 2018, «he claimed the FBI and local law enforcement were tormenting the central Illinois town, The Associated Press reported.

A 2018 indictment says that «the group obtained materials used to make explosives, provided weapons and uniforms to group members, and assigned ranks to its members.

U.S. Attorney John Docherty presented evidence suggesting that the three men planned to carry out a series of criminal jobs to fund their bigoted endeavors, including going on a trip to Cuba to capture the aunt of dead rapper Tupac Shakur, who is wanted by the FBI. They had planned to turn her in for a $1 million reward, according to the Tribune.

Hari, who once worked as a sheriff’s deputy, has had numerous run-ins with the law. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 months probation for child abduction in 2006 after taking his 13- and 15-year-old daughters to Mexico and Belize, where he later confessed he lived as «an illegal alien for almost a year. He was apparently afraid he’d lose custody of the girls to his ex-wife.

In 2017 — the same year he bombed the mosque and the abortion clinic — Hari submitted a bid to win a federal contract to build President Trump’s border wall.

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In a video about the project, which Hari called the «Great Western International Border Wall, a narrator proclaims that «the wall will be culturally significant … a powerful architectural statement of the determination of the American people to defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage, Western culture and English language.

«The wall exists to protect the economic rights of the U.S. population and to protect our way of life from people who have different value systems, the narrator says.

A sentencing hearing for Hari has yet to be scheduled.