WEBVTT - The Alleged Far-Left Bombing Plot 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:09.639 Zone Media, welcome to it could happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.640 Last September, President Trump announced a federal crackdown on left 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.759 wing radical terrorism by signing an executive order dubbing quote 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.960 unquote Antifa a domestic terrorist organization and directing federal law 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.720 enforcement to investigate potential federal crimes related to political violence, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:33.400 especially stemming from quote anti Americanism, anti capitalism, anti Christianity, 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:40.240 and hostility towards traditional American values. Last month, the FBI 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.360 claimed one of their first big victories against so called 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:50.280 Antifa terrorism since Trump's National Security directive. On December twelfth, 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.360 the FBI arrested four people in southern California, who the 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.800 government claims are members of a far left group called 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:04.200 the Turtle I Liberation Front. The criminal complaint, signed on 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.120 December thirteenth by an FBI agent working at the Joint 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.399 Terrorism Task Force office in Los Angeles, alleges that these 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.640 four individuals conspired to construct and detonate a series of 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:21.160 bombs in southern California on New Year's Eve twenty twenty five. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.960 The four defendants were first charged with conspiracy and possession 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:30.720 of an unregistered destructive device, then On December twenty third, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.960 a federal grand jury indicted them on additional terrorism related felonies. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.520 Here's a brief clip from the FBI press conference announcing 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.920 the arrests where First Assistant US Attorney Bill Assley compared 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.040 the Turtle Island Liberation Front group to Antifa. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.400 This case is another reminder about the dangers that radicalized 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.080 Antifa like groups posed to people, public safety, and the 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.000 rule of law. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.560 In court documents, the defendants are not just referred to 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.640 by their legal names, but also by their direct action 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:12.400 or signal code names. Audrey Eileen Carrol aka Asanach or 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:19.680 Black Moon, Zachary Aaron Paige aka ak Ash Carrington or 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:26.160 Cuthulhu's Daughter, Dante Garfield aka Nomad, and Tina Laie aka 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:31.440 kickwere The criminal complaint states that after forming the initial 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.799 bombing plan, Carol and Page recruited additional co conspirators who 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:41.600 participated in further planning meetings and helped procure bomb making materials. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.680 On December twelfth, the four defendants traveled to a remote 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.920 location in the Mohafi Desert with the alleged intent to 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.080 build and test explosive devices. An undercover FBI agent was 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:58.120 present at the testing site and a surveillance plane observed 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:04.200 from overhead. Before the defendants completed assembling a functional explosive device, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.160 the FBI arrested Carol, Paige Garfield, and Lie. From the 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.360 court documents that are currently available, the earliest allusion to 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.520 this New Year's Eve bombing plot is in a signal 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.200 message dated November twenty fourth, twenty twenty five, allegedly from 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.240 one of the defendants, Audrey Eileen Carroll, to whom they 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.040 believed was a genuine co conspirator, but was actually a 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:34.320 confidential human source working with law enforcement. According to the indictment, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.480 this alleged signal message from Carol stated that she and 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.720 quote unquote four comrades were planning to go to the 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.240 desert from December eleventh to December thirteenth, twenty twenty five, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.000 to quote test the items we are going to use 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:55.280 for those party plans unquote. This message references pre existing 0:03:55.360 --> 0:04:00.240 quote unquote party plans, which any prior origin of has 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.440 not yet been elaborated on. This confidential human source appears 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:11.040 to be an individual embedded in the Los Angeles activist scene. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.280 The criminal complaint describes them like this quote. The confidential 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.479 human Source is cooperating with law enforcement and is a 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:23.039 validated and vetted source. The Confidential Human Source has been 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.880 a reliable source of information since in or around August 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.479 twenty twenty one. The Confidential Human Source is cooperating for 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:35.120 financial compensation. The Confidential Human Source does not have any 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:40.320 criminal history. The Confidential Human Source provided past reliable reporting 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:46.760 on other cases and has provided reliable reporting in this case. Unquote. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.640 The quote unquote Turtle Island Liberation Front appears to be 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.960 a relatively new group with a social media footprint that 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:58.279 only goes back to July twenty twenty five. The Instagram 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:04.000 bio for their LA chapter reads quote liberation through decolonization 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:10.039 and tribal sovereignty unquote. Their most recent post, from December twelfth, 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.000 the day of the arrests, is promoting a quote unquote 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.560 Palestine pop up market in Culver City. A post from 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.360 November twenty eighth reads quote if they hurt you, they 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:26.720 hurt me too. Our destinies are intertwined. Liberation for one 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.120 must mean liberation for all. The empire must fall, and 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.760 from within the belly of the beast, we must be 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.440 the ones to dismantle it. Revolution is the only way 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:43.000 stop quote unquote peaceful protesting, rise up, fight back. We 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:49.040 are not outnumbered. They are organize and be ready unquote. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.119 As news of this group and the bombing plot spread 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.080 around the internet last month among the left, there was 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.880 a lot of skepticism pointed at the authenticity of the 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.800 story and the Turtle Island Liberation Front group itself, with 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.600 questions pointed at its name and some language used in 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.360 their social media posts. The name derives from a term 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.480 that some Indigenous tribes used to describe the North American 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.160 continent and is common language among a certain sect of 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:24.320 quote unquote land back activists. The Liberation Front moniker has 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.720 been used by a collection of direct action based groups, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:32.279 most notably the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.880 Front in the two thousands. Though the Turtle Island Liberation 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.279 Front group doesn't seem to have been a formalized activist 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.880 group for very long, there were genuine people involved with 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:49.000 this group, as evidenced by there being for defendants in 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:53.320 this criminal case. The Turtle Island Liberation Front Instagram account 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.400 was run by one of these defendants, and the language 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.159 used in their posts is not uncommon among the quote 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.279 unquote antium perialists whose ideology is grown an influence among 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.719 the American left during Israel's genocide in Palestine, and though 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.760 both an FBI informant and an undercover employee played a 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.239 part in this investigation, the group seems to have contained 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.280 a collection of genuine individuals who have participated in the 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:24.240 wider Los Angeles activist scene and especially anti Israel protests. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.360 The indictment and criminal complaint outlined the material steps that 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:34.600 defendants allegedly took to detail the plans of this bombing 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:40.360 plot and procure materials to construct explosive devices without material 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.480 support from FBI sources or undercover employees. All the information 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.200 in the indictment and criminal complaint is alleged, and all 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.560 the defendants should be considered innocent until proven guilty. The 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.120 indictment claims that Carol set up an in person meeting 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.800 for November twenty six to discuss the bombing plot with 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.840 another alleged Turtle Island Liberation Front member, Zachary Aaron Page, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.080 and the confidential human source, who were instructed to quote 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.560 where casual block, no devices, If you can't leave it 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.160 at home, have it turned off and wrapped in tinfoil. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:21.800 Makeshift Faraday Bagot. During this in person meeting, Carol allegedly 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:28.280 distributed an eight page handwritten document titled Operation Midnight Sun, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.040 outlining the plan for the bombing to both the Confidential 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.079 Human Source and co defendant Zachary Page. Carol allegedly retained 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.840 two to four additional copies of the handwritten plan. The 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.720 indictment says that Carol explained that the document was handwritten 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.000 because she quote did not want any traces of the 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:51.360 attack plan on a computer. After this meeting, Carol allegedly 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.520 sent an encrypted message to the confidential Human source about 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.000 the bomb testing camp out in the desert. Quote, this 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.280 trip is very spicy. We'll be testing the things we're 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.240 gonna make for December, like the things in the instructions 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.319 on that document I gave you. Testing first is important 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.720 so we know how well they work lol unquote. The 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.679 plan was for teams of four on the ground participants 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:23.960 to plant backpacks containing quote unquote complex pipe bombs or 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:29.479 IED's improvised closive devices outside of buildings at five locations, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:34.120 targeting two US companies, and then simultaneously detonate the bombs 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.160 at midnight on New Year's Eve twenty twenty five. There 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.120 would be one off the ground member assisting the teams 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.439 remotely by listening to police scanners or stationed in a 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:49.160 vehicle in case quote an emergency getaway is needed unquote, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.400 and one member of each on the ground team would 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.840 create graffiti of quote a red triangle and one message 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.040 of the teams, choosing on the sidewalk closest to the 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:05.240 building while the other three are placing the devices. The 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.240 indictment claims that the handwritten plan also instructed co conspirators 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.880 quote once you plant your IEDs, if there is any 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.559 time to safely do so, dump an accelerant around the premises, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.160 such as gasoline for added effect. We want to do 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:26.640 as much damage as possible unquote. The plan identified five 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:31.040 target locations as quote unquote marks, with five more blank 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:37.120 slots captioned add more if enough comrades. The criminal complaint 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:41.319 states that these targets were quote property and facilities operated 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.320 by two separate companies that are used or engaged in 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:50.280 activities affecting interstate and foreign commerce unquote. I'm going to 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.119 quote from three sections of the criminal complaint that outline 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:58.679 some of the opsec or operational security precautions that are 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.400 allegedly included in this handwritten plan. Quote. The plan described 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.120 multiple operational security measures the co conspirators should take to 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.240 conceal their identities, such as the use of a burner 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.760 phone that would be disposed of after the bombings by 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.320 quote submerging it in a concrete brick after destroying the 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.200 sim and then disposing of the brick in a body 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.000 of water unquote. The target date of the operation, New 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.520 Year's Eve, was identified as an opportune time because quote 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.600 fireworks will be going off at this time, so explosions 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.040 will be less likely to be noticed as immediately as 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:37.000 any normal day unquote. The plan emphasized that quote absolutely 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.360 no mistakes can be made unquote. The plans outline the 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.880 use of quote unquote black block over top of a 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:49.760 layer of quote gray slash casual block on top of 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.400 normal street clothes, and noted to keep hair very tightly concealed, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.000 and to wear gloves for the purpose of avoidance of 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:02.160 leaving behind. DNA further instructed that participants should leave their 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.360 personal devices at home and to make sure the devices 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.160 were set up to stream a long movie during the 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.640 time of the attacks, as so to craft an alibi 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.440 or quote unquote plausible deniability by having it appear as 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:20.440 though the actor was actively using their devices. The plan 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.840 discussed pre operational surveillance of targets, identification of D block 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:30.040 or D clothing locations, and not leaving quote anything other 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.760 than the IEDs behind unquote as they could not quote 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.000 risk any evidence tracing back to us quote. The plan 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.800 also noted the benefit of placing a small pebble in 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.240 a shoe to alter natural gait to obfuscate their identification. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.199 Instructions on how to purchase materials to construct a pipe 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.840 bomb suggested using cash only, purchasing in small quantities to 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:01.160 avoid suspicion, and splitting purchases amongst a team rather then individually. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.200 In addition to the plan of action and operational security tactics, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.520 detailed instructions were provided on the components required to build 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:22.959 a pipe bomb, as well as how to create homemade gunpowder. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.760 On December second, there was another in person meeting between 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.840 the law enforcement source, Carol and Page, as well as 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.640 two other co conspirators, to go over the plan. They 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.960 met again on December seventh to review the bombing plot 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:45.439 and allegedly discussed intent to conduct future attacks against federal offices. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.199 This meeting was also attended by an undercover FBI employee 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.760 who was being recruited to join the operation. The undercover 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.599 asked Carol about the black powder instructions in the handwritten 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:03.880 plan and responded that she conducted the research herself and 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.840 discussed wanting to test several different types of bomb to 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.840 determine which could quote unquote completely pulverize their assigned building 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.560 on New Year's Eve. To quote the criminal complaint quote, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.840 Carol stated that she had acquired some components thirteen PVC 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.840 pipes and that she had bought potassium nitrate on Amazon 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.600 using a burner account that was scheduled to be delivered 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:32.120 on December eleventh, twenty twenty five. During this in person meeting, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.760 Carol confirmed that she operated the Turnal Island Deliberation front 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.400 Instagram account and that she had met a co conspirator 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.240 through said Instagram account. The indictment claims that Carol told 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.120 co conspirators in this meeting quote what we are about 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:53.920 to do, that's gonna be like a Luigi level situation unquote, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.720 and that it was time for America to fall, and 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:01.280 that America falling will make Israel fall According to the indictment, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:06.200 during this December seventh meeting, Page told attendees again, including 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.760 an undercover FBI employee, that they were doing everything quote 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.040 to be as clean as possible because one hundred thousand 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:20.000 percent the FBI is gonna be like on that shit. Yeah, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.520 so we all know what we're getting into unquote in person, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.600 Page outlined some of the operational security precautions to avoid 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.240 law enforcement detection, like covering shoes with socks to cover 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.680 shoe prints, and burning shoes after the bombing. Page also 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.520 allegedly asked attendees if they would like to receive firearms 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.240 training from a group that held a training about a 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.640 month prior, and Carol said that she had a contact 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:52.440 who could obtain unregistered ars. This wasn't the first time 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:57.520 Turtle Island Liberation Front members allegedly brought up firearms. The 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.360 indictment claims that on quote December third, twenty twenty five, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:06.479 defendant Page, using an encrypted messaging application, asked the confidential 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.160 human source if the human source was interested in receiving 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.680 fire arms training. Explaining his plan to shoot ICE officials. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.520 In a voice message to the confidential human source, defendant 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.560 Page stated, quote, I just had this day dream. I 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.160 was like, we're just patrolling or whatever, and we're strapped right, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.960 and we see ICE trying to pull up on someone 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.640 or a group of people, and we just like roll 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.200 up on them, like strapped up, and we're like, nah, 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.640 get the fuck out of here. They're gonna get shot 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.280 if they try to do anything like we shoot first, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.960 we ask questions later. That's the policy. I told that 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.640 too in Brackets defendant Carol. Defendant Carol knows all about this, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.080 and Brackets Defendant Carol was like, yeah, let's fucking do it. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.640 But I'm like, seriously, that is what's needed. Maybe if 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.720 ICE agents they're like, wait, I don't want to get 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.400 fucking shot right now, they ain't gonna do it. And 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.760 if they still try to do it, well, guess what. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:08.120 Welcome to the dirt, motherfucker unquote. After sending this voice message, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.840 Page told the confidential human source quote, let me know 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.520 when you listen so I can delete it. Unquote. Small 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.680 lines like that are part of what I find really 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.280 interesting in this Turtle Island Liberation front case, because the 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.159 indictment and criminal complaint are just full of the defendants 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:29.959 recommending these security folklore practices like setting up your phone 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.560 to stream a long movie to create an alibi, and 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.200 placing a small pebble in your shoe to alter your gait, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.240 deleting these messages after you send them, which they're trying 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.879 to do, all while working with not just an FBI 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:50.639 informant but also an undercover agent. During the December seventh 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:55.000 in person meeting, Page and Carol discussed plans for future 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.480 attacks after this New Year's Eve bombing plot, specifically a 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.080 plan to target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:07.800 starting around January or February twenty twenty six, with Carol 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.080 noting in the meeting quote that would definitely take some 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.720 of them out and would probably scare the rest of 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.560 them unquote. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:15.880 Now. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:21.520 Following this meeting, more co conspirators, including an undercover FBI employee, 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.080 were added to the signal group chat called the Order 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:29.879 of the Black Lotus, which Carol described as the radical 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.880 faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front and which Page 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:39.560 described as quote unquote super underground. The indictment contains some 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.800 alleged messages sent to an encrypted group chat. It's unclear 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.240 this is specifically the Order of the Black Lotus chat 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.960 or another Turtle Island Liberation Front related chat. But I 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:55.240 will read through some of these messages. Quote Page messaged 0:18:55.280 --> 0:19:00.680 co conspirators, including defendants Carol and Garfield quote death to Israel, 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:06.000 death to the USA, death to colonizers, death to settler colonialism. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:10.840 In response to defendant Pages message, defendant Carol stated, quote 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.879 death to them all, burn it all down, three burning 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:19.280 heart emojis. Unquote. Defendant Carol messaged co conspirators, including Page 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:24.680 and Garfield, quote I identify as a terrorist and I 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:30.720 am a Hamas fangirl. Unquote. Garfield messaged co conspirators, including 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.840 Carol and Paige quote I am here to destroy Zionism 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:39.520 by any means necessary. Real activism equals destroying Zionism by 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.800 any means necessary, even if it's risky. If you aren't 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.200 willing to die for or lose your freedom, then you're 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:50.440 just another toy in the machine. Unquote. Carol messaged quote 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.920 glory to the martyr's death to Israel, three salute emojis. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.920 And on December third, defendant Carol told the Confidential Humans 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.680 source quote these fucking SJW peaceful protest libs are insane, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.439 like it's wild to me that I've seen state violence 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.600 enacted on some people like that, and they still think 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.280 they can keep going with peaceful protest bs and indirect 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:19.600 roots unquote. Defendants used the BLACKLOADUS group chat what Carol 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:24.080 described as quote our group for everything radical unquote, to 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.760 discuss sourcing bomb making parts including cotton string and PVC pipes, 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.119 as well as coordinates for the explosives testing site in 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.280 the desert quote where we will set up camp and 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:39.360 where we will test unquote. On the afternoon of December tenth, 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.879 Page messaged the group about just having acquired two parts 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.080 for the bomb recipe and that starter would be picked 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:52.159 up later that day. Page was under FBI surveillance around 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.520 the time this message was sent, and fifteen minutes prior 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.040 to sending this message, Page was seen grabbing a package 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:03.240 from an Amazon pick up location. Hours later, FBI agent's 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:07.760 watched Page by pistol primers from a store in Irving, California. 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:13.120 Quote dressed in a manner to obscure Page's identity, namely 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:18.000 wearing a medical mask, gloves, ball cap, and longsleeved shirt 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:22.520 to quote the criminal complaint. Carol replied to Page's messages 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.919 about obtaining more items from the ingredient's list, writing that 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.080 another package was quote already delivered, got to pick it 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:34.240 up tomorrow, but yay with four whys unquote. The criminal 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.920 complaint says that quote. According to Amazon records, on December seventh, 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.159 twenty twenty five, Carol purchased two five pound bags of 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:46.600 potassium nitrate ninety nine percent heure prilled Kno three five 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.600 pounds for industrial and technical applications, to be delivered to 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.680 the Amazon counter at the Whole Foods located at three 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:58.080 three seven seven South La Sienna Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:04.399 The potassium nitrate was delivered on December eleventh, twenty twenty five. Quote. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.560 In early December, Carol messaged the confidential human source on 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:13.600 signal a list of components chemicals and tools, along with 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.760 prices of the required items. Several of these components were 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.600 either listed as already purchased or designated to be acquired 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.600 by another quote unquote. Comrade Carol advised the confidential human 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.240 source quote with the list, write it and down when 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:31.040 you have some time. Then I'll delete that message, so 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.040 it's no in the chat all well. 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:33.680 Quote. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:37.359 Carol also told the confidential human source that they should 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:40.919 get some burner phones quote unquote bought with cash only 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.879 for the bomb testing camp out in the desert. Page 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.800 instructed the group to only bring two burner phones to 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.480 use in case of emergencies and for directions on the 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:53.959 way out to quote the complaint quote. Once everyone arrived, 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.560 their phones would be put in a small cardboard box 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.320 completely sealed with aluminium. The phones would not be returned 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.800 until the care caravan was out of the campsite and 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:04.920 back on the main road. Quote forgetting to the desert, 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:08.440 page wrote that each navigator should have a burner phone, 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:12.680 quoting page in the complaint quote no phones besides burners, 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:15.600 and all phones except navigators to be wrapped in foil 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.320 or a Faraday bag for the entirety of the trip 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.639 and install OSM. And it is an open source maps, 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:27.679 so no corporate tracking unquote. Garfield wrote quote, I have 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:30.600 a few burners, but I'm saving for the big event, 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:37.280 the big party celebrate emoji quote. On December tenth, Carol 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:40.679 sent the Confidential Human Source a message on signal reading 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:43.720 quote I kind of hand this notebook where I wrote 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.720 down multiple plans that never happened or got delayed, So 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:53.600 it's like my terrorist diary. Lmaoooo, I have to get 0:23:53.720 --> 0:24:08.080 rid of that unquote. On the morning of December twelfth, 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:12.560 twenty twenty five, Carol Page, Garfield, and Lye traveled to 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:16.439 the desert in two vehicles, the confidential human source in 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:20.080 one car and the undercover in the other. To quote 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:24.440 from the complaint quote. In the undercover vehicle, Page discussed 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:27.600 using cigarettes as a delayed fusing device for the explosives. 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:30.320 Once they arrived in the desert, in the other vehicle, 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:33.640 Carol explained to Lie that the day's events were meant 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:36.359 as a test run for the New Year's Eve bombing plot, 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.879 which Carol described in detail, stating, quote, what we're doing 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:45.000 will be considered a terrorist act unquote. In response to 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.639 Carroll's detailing of the New Year's Eve plot, Lie asked 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:51.960 if there would be any people at the bombing target locations. 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:55.800 Carol responded in the negative, but noted that if they 0:24:55.840 --> 0:24:58.760 saw any people such as a security guard at any 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:02.560 of the locations, they would warn them. At approximately ten am, 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:04.960 the co conspirators arrived at the desert and began setting 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:08.480 up a campsite including tents and tables. Based on information 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:12.239 from the undercover and confidential human source. Carol Page, and 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:16.360 Lie all brought bomb making components to the campsite, including 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:22.639 various sizes of PVC pipes, suspected potassium nitrate, charcoal, charcoal powder, 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:26.600 sulfur powder, and material to be used as fuses, among others. 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:30.919 After the undercover alerted law enforcement with a predetermined signal 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:34.719 indicating that bomb testing was imminent, FBI personnel intervened and 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:39.960 placed Carol Page, Garfield, and Lie into custody. This is 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:43.240 a clip from the law enforcement press conference announcing the 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:47.119 arrests with a Keel Davis, Assistant Director in charge of 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:50.199 the FBI Los Angeles Field Office. 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:53.720 On December twelfth, a group of individuals, again members of 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:58.920 this antigovernment group, traveled out to the desert to test 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:03.600 their explosive device. They had precursor chemicals there and they 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.399 were going to make They were going to create these 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.240 these bombs in the desert. What they are starting to 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:13.520 do is put their chemicals and wares and the components 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:16.440 out on the on the table on the table there. 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:20.480 This footage that you're watching is from our surveillance plane. 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:24.680 And then what happened after this is the Los Angeles 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:28.400 FBI SWAT team, along with the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:32.040 moved in and arrested all four subjects without without incident. 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:36.439 The criminal complaint notes at the end that quote based 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:40.359 on conversations with the bomb technician. While no quote unquote 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:43.560 end caps were found at the campsite, the co conspirators 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:47.159 could have improvised using other material to plug the end 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:50.800 of the PBC pipe, though such method would have been 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:54.800 less effective than using a proper end cap. As noted above, 0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:59.600 there were also sufficient parts to create several molotov cocktail 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:05.439 device unquote. After the arrests, law enforcement also raided the 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:09.800 homes of the Turtle Island Liberation Front members. In Page's residence, 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:13.680 police found a copy of the handwritten attack plan Operation 0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:19.600 Midnight Sun. That same day, December twelfth, another Turtle Island 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:23.840 Liberation Front related arrest was made all the way in Louisiana, 0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:27.280 a former marine who was member of the Order of 0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:30.679 the Black Lotus Signal group under the name Darkwitch. She 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:33.399 her who was also planning to instruct the group on 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:38.960 quote urban tactics, accuracy and combat shooting unquote. She was 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:42.600 arrested while driving from New Iberia to New Orleans with 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:47.080 a rifle, handgun, gas canister, and body armour. The FBI 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:49.520 believes that she was going to carry out an attack 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:53.399