5 Klansmen Indicted in Arms Plot

Five men identified as members of the Ku Klux Klan and its successor group, the White Patriot Party, were indicted in North Carolina on charges of conspiring to obtain weapons, explosives and equipment stolen from a U.S. armory at Wadesboro, N.C., the Justice Department announced today.

The 12-page indictment issued by a federal grand jury in Raleigh, N.C., says the five planned to get military weapons and explosives to equip and train a paramilitary group that would “further the goals of the White Supremacist movement.”