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 andFor anyone interested in the case, MSNBC'sinstructions 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.
documentary The
Assassination of Dr. Tiller is required viewing.
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