SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A former Laotian military general and a former California National Guard officer were among nine people charged Monday with plotting a violent overthrow of Laos' communist government.
The group was raising money to recruit a mercenary force and buy enough weapons to equip a small army that could pull off a coordinated set of attacks with anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers and C-4 explosives, prosecutors allege.
"We're looking at conspiracy to murder thousands and thousands of people at one time," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Twiss said in federal court.
Thousands of co-conspirators remain at large, many in other countries, Twiss said. …
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