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Witness describes weapons, tactical training videos recovered at Taos compound

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The Taos County Sheriff鈥檚 Office and the FBI search a compound north of Amalia and near the Colorado border in August 2018. Four people are on trial in Albuquerque on federal terrorism charges.

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Prosecutors offered testimony Wednesday to support their allegation that four people on trial for federal charges of terrorism and kidnapping had prepared for violent attacks before they were arrested at a ramshackle compound near Taos in 2018.

A military weapons expert told jurors that more than 90 videos recovered at the remote property show weapons and tactical training he described as 鈥渕ission preparation鈥 by men and juveniles at the compound.

鈥淚n my opinion, a majority of the training was offensive in nature,鈥 said Randy Watt, a retired U.S. Army colonel and special forces commander. 鈥淭his was far removed from your standard security guard training.鈥

Watt also testified that the squalid compound where federal and local law enforcement officers found five adults and 11 malnourished children appeared to be designed to guard against surveillance and attack.

鈥淭he compound, the firing range, was designed to support offensive training preparation to attack a target,鈥 Watt told jurors. The compound featured a sunken area Watt described as a bunker surrounded by a berm made of earth and tires and topped with broken glass.

The compound also featured a 100-foot tunnel with an opening outside the compound accessible by a ladder, Watt said. Some of the 11 firearms found at the complex were found inside the tunnel, he said.

鈥淭he tunnel adds a dimension to the complex鈥 that offered both an escape route and a means of flanking attackers, Watt testified.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 45, his sisters Hujrah Wahhaj, 42, and Subhanah Wahhaj, 30, and Subhanah鈥檚 husband, Lucas Morton, 45, all were indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2019 on charges including providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder an officer or employee of the 近距离内射合集 States.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was not charged with kidnapping because federal law prohibits a parent from being so charged. His sisters and brother-in-law are charged with kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

New Mexico became the focus of national attention in August 2018 when FBI agents and Taos County Sheriff鈥檚 deputies raided the compound near the Colorado border searching for a 3-year-old boy reported missing in December 2017 by his mother in Georgia. The boy鈥檚 decomposed remains were found in a 100-foot tunnel at the compound.

Prosecutors allege the group believed that the boy, Abdul Ghani Wahhaj, would be resurrected as 鈥淚sa,鈥 a prophet or messiah, who would instruct followers how to rid the world of 鈥渃orrupt institutions,鈥 including military, law enforcement and financial institutions.

Attorneys for the defendants said in opening statements that residents at the compound never attacked or identified any targets and the government鈥檚 claims are based on 鈥渟peculative鈥 events predicted in a journal kept by Jany Laveille, a fifth adult who lived at the compound.

Laveille, 40, a Haitian national, pleaded guilty in February to a federal firearms charge and one conspiracy charge and faces 15 years in prison.

Prosecutors showed some of the videos recorded at the compound that Watt described as 鈥渙ffensive training videos.鈥 The videos show firearms and tactical training exercises that Watt said were directed by Siraj Ibn Wahhaj.