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Release of man who plotted attack on Muslim hamlet prompts criticism
Source: The Guardian
Release of man who plotted attack on Muslim hamlet prompts criticism
Raya Jalabi in New York
Tuesday 7 July 2015 17.04 BST
A judge’s decision to release a Tennessee man on bail after he was recorded threatening to stab, shoot and firebomb a Muslim community in upstate New York has been criticized by civil rights activists.
Robert Doggart, 63 and a former candidate for Congress, said he wanted to take his “battle-tested M-4” military-style assault rifle, “with 500 rounds of ammunition, light armor piercing,” a pistol with three extra magazines and a machete, to burn down “the kitchen, the mosque and their school” in the hamlet of Islamberg, according to a criminal complaint against him.
On a phone call in March excerpted in the criminal complaint, Doggart told an FBI source, that the inhabitants of Islamberg “have to be killed ... If we can get in there and do that not losing a man, even the better.”
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As part of a deal, Doggart pleaded guilty in April to “interstate communication of threats”, a non-terrorism offense, which carries with it up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Appearing at a detention hearing on 20 April, at which a federal agent testified about Doggart’s plot in detail, the defendant was ordered detained without bail after magistrate judge Susan K Lee said she found “clear and convincing evidence that the defendant (is) a danger to the community”.
But at a hearing soon after, Lee recommended Doggart be released into the custody of two family members on $30,000 bail after hearing evidence regarding his mental health.
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Raya Jalabi in New York
Tuesday 7 July 2015 17.04 BST
A judge’s decision to release a Tennessee man on bail after he was recorded threatening to stab, shoot and firebomb a Muslim community in upstate New York has been criticized by civil rights activists.
Robert Doggart, 63 and a former candidate for Congress, said he wanted to take his “battle-tested M-4” military-style assault rifle, “with 500 rounds of ammunition, light armor piercing,” a pistol with three extra magazines and a machete, to burn down “the kitchen, the mosque and their school” in the hamlet of Islamberg, according to a criminal complaint against him.
On a phone call in March excerpted in the criminal complaint, Doggart told an FBI source, that the inhabitants of Islamberg “have to be killed ... If we can get in there and do that not losing a man, even the better.”
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As part of a deal, Doggart pleaded guilty in April to “interstate communication of threats”, a non-terrorism offense, which carries with it up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Appearing at a detention hearing on 20 April, at which a federal agent testified about Doggart’s plot in detail, the defendant was ordered detained without bail after magistrate judge Susan K Lee said she found “clear and convincing evidence that the defendant (is) a danger to the community”.
But at a hearing soon after, Lee recommended Doggart be released into the custody of two family members on $30,000 bail after hearing evidence regarding his mental health.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/07/robert-doggart-attack-islamberg
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