(MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE) — The threats by Fairbanks militia members to the lives of law enforcement officials and their families came under sharp focus in a federal courtroom Tuesday when secretly recorded conversations revealed the origins of the infamous “241” plan for murder.
The idea of taking an “eye for an eye” a step further than the Bible — two killings or two private arrests for every killing or arrest of a militia member — arose at a “staff meeting” of the leadership of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia in February 2011. The meeting took place in a converted school bus that militia major Ken Thesing called home and was attended by militia commander Schaeffer Cox, another major, Coleman Barney, and a sergeant, Gerald Olson.
Unknown to the other three, Olson was wearing a recorder and working undercover for the FBI.
