While it's still unclear what the Hutaree hoped to gain from their alleged master-plot to kill police officers, details about the Michigan militia group's enigmatic leader, David Brian Stone, have started to coalesce. In this report, The Christian Science Monitor's Will Buchanan sheds more light on "Captain Hutaree," quoting experts who theorize that Stone may have been afraid of "being put in a FEMA concentration camp." Two short excerpts:
"Members called him 'Captain Hutaree' or, somewhat cryptically, 'RD.' A federal indictment calls him the 'principal leader' of the Hutaree militia – an extremist group federal authorities say was preparing to 'levy war' against the US government by killing police officers.
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