ILLINOIS NATIONALISM: Nationalists Michael B. Hari, 47; Joe Morris, 22; Michael McWhorter, 29, Arrested For BOMBING A Minnesota Mosque


URBANA — Three Ford County men were charged Tuesday with bombing a Minnesota mosque last year in an effort to drive Muslims out of the U.S., and they and a fourth man also were charged with possession of a machine gun in Illinois. Michael B. Hari, 47; Joe Morris, 22; Michael McWhorter, 29, all of Clarence, face one count each of arson in federal court, said U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Gregory G. Brooker. They and Ellis Mack, 18, also of Clarence, face a federal charge of possession of a machine gun, according to John E. Childress, U.S. attorney for the central district of Illinois. The four were arrested by FBI agents Tuesday on the weapons charges and were in custody in Urbana. Hari was arrested as he was traveling to a court appearance in Ford County on unrelated assault charges. The arrests were announced by Childress and FBI Special Agent Sean Cox of Springfield........

A PVC pipe bomb was thrown through the mosque window just before morning prayers, causing a fire that left extensive damage but no injuries, prosecutors said. An explosive device was thrown through the clinic window but failed to detonate, prosecutors said.   Four fully automatic weapons that met the federal definition for a machine gun were found by police at the home of McWhorter's brother, who told officers Hari and Morris had brought the weapons to his home several days earlier. 



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