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Ilsa

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 09:03 PM Jan 2018

White Supremacist Charged With Terrorism After Alleged Attempt To Derail Train

White Supremacist Charged With Terrorism After Alleged Attempt To Derail Train

The FBI found weapons hidden in his Missouri home after he pulled the brake on an Amtrak train while armed.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-charges-white-supremacist-terrorism-derail-amtrak_us_5a4ffd9ae4b003133ec7d2cc?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

The FBI has charged a 26-year-old Missouri man with terrorism after agents say he attempted to derail an Amtrak train in Nebraska by triggering the train’s emergency brakes.

Taylor M. Wilson of St. Charles, Missouri, had previously traveled with members of a neo-Nazi group to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and expressed an interest in “killing black people,” according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.

After Wilson was arrested for triggering the train’s brakes in October, FBI agents found weapons, tactical gear and white supremacist documents at his home. Some items were in a hidden compartment behind a refrigerator, according to the court documents.

FBI Special Agent Monte Czaplewski said that Wilson, who has a concealed carry permit, boarded the train intending to carry out a terrorist attack and pulled the emergency brake “with intent to harm those aboard” on Oct. 22, according to the affidavit.

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White Supremacist Charged With Terrorism After Alleged Attempt To Derail Train (Original Post) Ilsa Jan 2018 OP
Asshole shenmue Jan 2018 #1
huh.... i must have missed this on all the MSM news shows tonight Takket Jan 2018 #2
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