OCT 14 2016, 5:34 PM ET

Three Arrested in Bomb Plot Targeting Somalis in Kansas

by PETE WILLIAMS

Three Kansas men were arrested Friday and charged with plotting to attack an apartment building in Garden City, Kansas where Somali immigrants were living.

Prosecutors say the men, who called themselves "The Crusaders," were unaware that the FBI was on to them last February and kept them under close surveillance. The men had ties to an anti-government hate group, officials said, and talked about carrying out the attack after the election.

According to the charges, they considered a number of possible targets before settling on the apartment building and talked about attacking it with car bombs which they said would "wake people up."

The men were arrested Friday morning in the Liberal, Kansas area, after receiving what they thought were working firearms from an FBI undercover operative, officials said.

There is a sizable Somali population in that area working in a Tyson foods processing plant.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...kansas-n666701