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.
In the end, prosecutors say, the three men decided to bomb a complex of low-slung apartments on West Mary Street in Garden City, Kan., a place where Somali immigrants sleep and pray between shifts at a nearby meatpacking plant on the state’s sparsely populated southwestern plains.
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