10/26/09
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12/27/10
Scott Roeder's Bible study group reportedly focus of feds investigating conspiracy to kill George Tiller By Justin Kendall, Mon., Dec. 27 2010
Scott Roeder's Bible study group reportedly focus of feds investigating conspiracy to kill George Tiller
By Justin Kendall, Mon., Dec. 27 2010
Federal agents are still questioning people to determine if Scott Roeder was really a so-called lone wolf in the assassination of George Tiller. The Star reported over the weekend that the focus of the feds' investigation appears to be members of Roeder's Bible study group. Meanwhile, a grand jury convened in the wake of Tiller's death is still meeting.
Roeder shot and killed Tiller, who was ushering at a Wichita church, in May 2009. Roeder has since been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years. But the feds are still trying to piece together whether he acted alone.
The Star reports that at least nine of the Bible study members have been questioned. They're denying any conspiracy. So are militant anti-abortion advocates (and friends of Roeder) like Dave Leach and the Rev. Donald Spitz, who runs the Army of God website.
The Star's story notes the North Carolina case of Justin Carl Moose, who agreed to a plea deal on charges of distributing information on manufacturing and using an explosive, as another example of the escalation of violence against abortion providers.
According to court documents, Moose provided detailed information and instructions on explosives to a person he thought was going to bomb a North Carolina abortion clinic. That person actually was a confidential informant.
Moose told the informant that he was a member of the Army of God, a name associated with an underground network of anti-abortion extremists.
"I have set up groups," the informant said Moose told him. "I have trained people and this is not my first rodeo."
Soon after Moose was charged, Justice Department investigators showed up in Kansas City to conduct more interviews on the Roeder case. So far, none of Roeder's supporters -- many of whom vocally support the killing of abortion doctors as an act of justifiable homicide -- have been subpoenaed by the grand jury.
For anyone interested in the case, MSNBC's documentary The Assassination of Dr. Tiller is required viewing.
By Justin Kendall, Mon., Dec. 27 2010
Federal agents are still questioning people to determine if Scott Roeder was really a so-called lone wolf in the assassination of George Tiller. The Star reported over the weekend that the focus of the feds' investigation appears to be members of Roeder's Bible study group. Meanwhile, a grand jury convened in the wake of Tiller's death is still meeting.
Roeder shot and killed Tiller, who was ushering at a Wichita church, in May 2009. Roeder has since been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years. But the feds are still trying to piece together whether he acted alone.
The Star reports that at least nine of the Bible study members have been questioned. They're denying any conspiracy. So are militant anti-abortion advocates (and friends of Roeder) like Dave Leach and the Rev. Donald Spitz, who runs the Army of God website.
The Star's story notes the North Carolina case of Justin Carl Moose, who agreed to a plea deal on charges of distributing information on manufacturing and using an explosive, as another example of the escalation of violence against abortion providers.
According to court documents, Moose provided detailed information and instructions on explosives to a person he thought was going to bomb a North Carolina abortion clinic. That person actually was a confidential informant.
Moose told the informant that he was a member of the Army of God, a name associated with an underground network of anti-abortion extremists.
"I have set up groups," the informant said Moose told him. "I have trained people and this is not my first rodeo."
Soon after Moose was charged, Justice Department investigators showed up in Kansas City to conduct more interviews on the Roeder case. So far, none of Roeder's supporters -- many of whom vocally support the killing of abortion doctors as an act of justifiable homicide -- have been subpoenaed by the grand jury.
For anyone interested in the case, MSNBC's documentary The Assassination of Dr. Tiller is required viewing.
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