The Michigan HUTAREE according to the FiBI

Feds say militia members wanted to attack cops

Here are updated and additional related story links: 
See LATEST ENTRIES > May 7th, 8th, 10th > * Hold on Bond and * Hutaree Release Debated  * Bond Appeal Review - No Release

Updated Source URL (as of Mon, 3/29 @ 5PM) >  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36075836/ns/us_news-security/

Updated Source URL (as of Tues, 3/30 @ 4:45PM) > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36095306/ns/us_news-security/

Updated Source URL (as of Wed, 3/31 @ 4:20PM) > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36113919/ns/us_news-security/

A Time / CNN URL (as of Wed, 3/31) > http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1976665,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar

FBI: 'Ruse' used to arrest Hutaree members > http://www.roguegovernment.com/index.php?news_id=20387

From Michigan Free Press (Thurs, 4/1) > Hutaree: Real threat or good ol' boys? 
Militia all talk, no action, defense lawyers argue
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100401/NEWS06/4010419/Hutaree--Real-threat-or-good-ol/--boys&template=fullarticle

Brother doubts alleged violent plan > http://detnews.com/article/20100403/METRO/4030373/Hutaree-leader-loved-war-games

Indiana Militia Knew Of FBI Target Hutaree > http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/20100404-william_flatts_indiana_militia_hutaree_fbi

Feds say they saw pattern of escalating hostility in Hutaree >
http://www.freep.com/article/20100404/NEWS06/4040465/Feds-say-they-saw-pattern-of-escalating-hostility-in-Hutaree

Cause for War (William Norman Grigg) > http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/causus-belli.html

Hutaree arrests: gut-check for militias (LA Times) >
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-militia7-2010apr07,0,5490262.story

True?Crime - 48 Hrs: Mystery - Hutaree Militia Raided > http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20002337-504083.html

Feds: Militia Leader Told Members Be Ready to Kill > http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10398970

Beware of 'Militia' Traitors > http://detnews.com/article/20100417/METRO/4170351/Other-militias-told-on-Hutaree

How the FiBI infiltrated the Hutaree > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125856761&ps=cprs

Judge scolds prosecutors at hearing for Hutaree militia members > http://www.detnews.com/article/20100427/METRO/4270411/1409/Judge-scolds-prosecutors-at-hearing-for-Hutaree-militia-members

Father testifies Hutaree suspect visitied militia activist Mark Koernke > http://detnews.com/article/20100429/METRO/4290444/Father-testifies-Hutaree-suspect-visited-militia-activist

May 3rd > Judge grants bond for Hutaree militia members >  http://www.detnews.com/article/20100503/METRO/5030374/Judge-grants-bond-for-Hutaree-militia-members

The conditions:

All nine must surrender all guns and gun licenses and cannot apply for gun licenses.
They must seek employment and report to federal authorities weekly.
They also cannot drink alcohol or use drugs and will be tested regularly.
They also cannot have contact with each other unless their attorney is present.
The accused must also provide lists of all other Hutaree members and any other militia groups they associated with

David Brian Stone Sr. cannot associate or have contact with Mark Koernke
Stone also cannot use a computer or the Internet.

Stone's wife Tina is banned from using a computer or the Internet

Clough is ordered to shut down the Hutaree website and refrain from starting any other website.
He must also get a mental health evaluation and refrain from using a computer or the Internet.

Ward must get a mental health evaluation

Meeks must get an alcohol assessment.

May 7th >  Appeals court puts Hutaree bonds on hold >  http://detnews.com/article/20100507/METRO01/5070379/1409/rss36

May 8th > Hutarees' release debated > http://www.detnews.com/article/20100508/METRO01/5080330/1409/METRO/Hutarees--release-debated

May 10th > Hutaree militia to remain behind bars pending appeal
 > http://detnews.com/article/20100510/METRO/5100425/Hutaree-militia-to-remain-behind-bars-pending-appeal

Hutaree group also plotted to attack officers' funeral, prosecutors say

ADRIAN, Mich. - Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia in the Midwest were charged Monday with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement people, federal prosecutors said.

Members of the group called Hutaree are charged in the case, including its leader, David Brian Stone. The suspects included six people from Michigan, two from Ohio and one from Indiana, officials said.

Once other officers gathered for the slain officer's funeral, the group planned to detonate homemade bombs with projectiles, killing more, the newly unsealed court papers revealed.

The charges follow FBI raids over the weekend on locations in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.

The raids were prompted by Hutaree plans to stage "a covert reconnaissance operation for April which had the potential of placing an unsuspecting member of the public at risk," said Barbara McQuade, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

According to investigators, the Hutaree view local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel as a "brotherhood" and an enemy, and planned to attack them as part of an armed struggle against the U.S. government.

"It is believed by the Hutaree that this engagement would then serve as a catalyst for a more widespread uprising against the government," court documents said.

Eight suspects have been arrested by the FBI, and one more is being sought. Seven suspects appearedly briefly in court in Detroit on Monday and were ordered held without bond until a hearing on Wednesday.

Prosecuters said Stone, the militia leader, downloaded information about how to build explosive devices from the Internet and e-mailed diagrams of them to someone he believed was capable of making them, NBC reported.

He then directed his son and others to begin gathering the needed materials. Stone was charged, along with his wife and two sons. One son, Joshua Stone, remained a fugitive.

The Detroit News quoted Donna Stone, the ex-wife of Stone, as saying his growing radicalism was a factor in their divorce three years ago.

"You pray as a family, you stay together as a family," the News report Stone as saying. "When he got carried away, when he went from handguns to big guns, it's like, now I'm done."

The group's Web site says Hutaree means "Christian warrior."

'Extremist fringe'
Andrew Arena, head of the FBI's field office in Detroit, said the case "is an example of radical and extremist fringe groups which can be found throughout our society. The FBI takes such extremist groups seriously, especially those who would target innocent citizens and the law enforcement officers who protect the citizens of the United States."

FBI spokesman Scott Wilson said agents arrested two people Saturday after raids in two towns in Ohio. A third arrest was made in northeast Illinois on Sunday, a day after a raid took place just over the border in northwest Indiana.

Michael Lackomar, a spokesman for the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, said one of his team leaders got a frantic phone call Saturday evening from members of Hutaree, who said their property in southwest Michigan was being raided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

"They said they were under attack by the ATF and wanted a place to hide," Lackomar said. "My team leader said, 'no thanks.'"

The team leader was cooperating with the FBI, Lackomar said. He said SMVM wasn't affiliated with Hutaree, which states on its Web site to be "prepared to defend all those who belong to Christ and save those who aren't."

"We believe that one day, as prophecy says, there will be an Anti-Christ. All Christians must know this and prepare, just as Christ commanded," the group's Web site said. "Jesus wanted us to be ready to defend ourselves using the sword and stay alive using equipment."

Lackomar said none of the raids focused on his group, which is affiliated with the Michigan Militia, a larger militia umbrella group. Lackomar said about eight to 10 members of Hutaree trained with SMVM twice in the past three years. SMVM holds monthly training sessions focusing on survival training and shooting practice, Lackomar said.

NBC Justice Correspondent Pete Williams as well as the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Updated Source URL (as of Mon, 3/29 @ 5PM) >  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36075836/ns/us_news-security/

Updated Source URL (as of Tues, 3/30 @ 4:45PM) > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36095306/ns/us_news-security/

Updated Source URL (as of Wed, 3/31 @ 4:20PM) >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36113919/ns/us_news-security/

A Time / CNN URL (as of Wed, 3/31) > http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1976665,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar

FBI: 'Ruse' used to arrest Hutaree members > http://www.roguegovernment.com/index.php?news_id=20387

From Michigan Free Press (Thurs, 4/1) > Hutaree: Real threat or good ol' boys? 
Militia all talk, no action, defense lawyers argue
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100401/NEWS06/4010419/Hutaree--Real-threat-or-good-ol/--boys&template=fullarticle

Brother doubts alleged violent plan > http://detnews.com/article/20100403/METRO/4030373/Hutaree-leader-loved-war-games

Indiana Militia Knew Of FBI Target Hutaree > http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/20100404-william_flatts_indiana_militia_hutaree_fbi

Feds say they saw pattern of escalating hostility in Hutaree >
http://www.freep.com/article/20100404/NEWS06/4040465/Feds-say-they-saw-pattern-of-escalating-hostility-in-Hutaree

Cause for War (William Norman Grigg) > http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/causus-belli.html

Hutaree arrests: gut-check for militias (LA Times) >
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-militia7-2010apr07,0,5490262.story