DPS: Minnesota bomb plotters linked to Mansion fire

[The Northerner]

UPDATED at 2:15 p.m. with additional information, corrects that latest sketches are of one suspect and location of one video:

An anarchist group whose members were prosecuted for plotting to bomb the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., has been linked to the unsolved June 2008 arson fire that gutted the Texas Governor’s Mansion, officials confirmed this afternoon.

Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said a white Jeep Cherokee seen on an adjacent street by surveillance cameras at the Mansion four days before the fire has been “connected to people who were part of that anarchist group.” Video footage of the Jeep showed someone in the back seat taking two photos with a flash.

McCraw characterized the event as “obviously pre-ops surveillance.” He would not elaborate.

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