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That would be David B. Stone Sr., who federal authorities say is the leader of a Christian militia group called the Hutaree, which they accuse of plotting to kill law-enforcement officers in an attempt to spark a broad revolt against the U.S. government. Including raids in Ohio and Indiana over the same weekend, the authorities would arrest nine people, including Stone, his wife Tina and his son David Jr., 19. Another son, Joshua, 21, was apprehended late on Monday. The alleged Hutaree members have been charged with sedition and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction. Says Emily Robinson...
Very few locals, however, were even aware of who David B. Stone Sr. was, even if they had heard of militia activity in the area. But Stone grew up in Clayton. About two decades ago, he had apparently been a member of the Michigan militia, a paramilitary group that was active in the late 1990s. He'd always been into guns. Penny Delaney recalled that when she dated Stone about 18 years ago, they would often practice shooting "by swinging the tire [and firing at its opening], to make sure you kept shooting on target." Back then, she said...
...Tuesday afternoon, Delaney stood on the road leading to Stone's trailer. She pointed to the old Fords on the front lawn. "Jesus is coming back," she said, "and the four horsemen too." Sometime in 2012, she thinks. Nevertheless, she declined to join the Hutaree or any other militia group because, she said, "I don't want my kids involved in that stuff." (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...apocalyptic theorist whose TV show has been presented on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network. The Hutaree views federal, state and local law-enforcement officers as "foot soldiers" for the federal government, or participants in the "new world order" - the perpetual bête noire of the American militia movement. The group had apparently planned to execute its uprising in April. "We couldn't let that exercise go forward," said Barbara McQuade, the top U.S. attorney in eastern Michigan. (See more about the Hutaree - a new name in American paranoia...
...exile by the Taliban after they took over the country in 1996, he made common cause with them after the U.S. invasion of late 2001. The Taliban have always disliked Hekmatyar, and their loathing is shared by the many Kabul residents who saw thousands of innocents killed by his militia's repeated rocket barrages on the capital in his power struggle with rival mujahedin commanders...