3 militia men accused of plotting to bomb Somalis (an apartment complex) in Kansas

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3 militia men accused of plotting to bomb Somalis in Kansas, AP, 10/15/16
https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-militia-men-accused-plotting-061751972.html

Three members of a Kansas militia group are accused of plotting to bomb an apartment complex that's home to Somali immigrants in the western Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City, a thwarted attack prosecutors say was planned for the day after the November election.

A complaint unsealed Friday charges Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. The men are members of a small militia group that calls itself "the Crusaders," and whose members espouse sovereign citizen, anti-government, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist beliefs, according to the complaint.

... They ultimately decided to target the apartment complex because of the number of Somalis who lived there and the fact that one of the apartments was used as a mosque. The complex houses about 120 Somali residents, Beall said.

The complaint said Stein discussed the explosives used in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh.

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1. Why does the media insist on calling them militia?

Militia implies they are a group that either fights to protect the state or the country. They are not militia, they are a group of terrorists. PERIOD

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2. Yup. Excellent point. Why not call them members of "The Crusaders Gang"?