New Mexico compound suspects plotted attack on Atlanta hospital: court documents

Suspects who lived at a New Mexico compound were planning an attack against a major Atlanta hospital, among other places, according to new court documents.

Prosecutors alleged Friday that the group had plans to attack law enforcement and “specific targets such as teachers, schools, banks and other ‘corrupt institutions,” CNN reports.

In particular, the plan pointed to Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital, documents showed. Leveille “expressed her displeasure with Grady Hospital…due to the treatment she and her mother received there” in a journal, according to court documents.

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The documents did not explain what treatment she had undergone.

The new court filings included a handwritten document titled “Phases of a Terrorist Attack,” which contained instructions about carrying out attacks, according to CNN.

Some of the children being held in the compound allegedly also told the police that one of the adult suspects, Lucas Morten, “stated he wished to die in Jihad, as a martyr.”

CNN reports that the document also alleged that the children told police that Leveille “intended to confront ‘corrupt’ institutions or individuals, such as the military, big businesses, CIA, teachers/schools and reveal the ‘truth’ to these corrupt institutions or individuals.”

If she failed, the plan said she would signal another adult suspect from the compound, Siraj Wahhaj, to “shoot or otherwise attack the non-believer.”

According to CNN, the documents also alleged that two children from the compound told an FBI agent they had been trained in “advanced firearms handling and had been instructed to shoot law enforcement personnel when the time came and that they would be instructed in the future to attack specific targets such as teachers, schools, banks and other ‘corrupt institutions.'”

Five adults were arrested at the New Mexico compound earlier this month. Authorities also found 11 starving children there and the remains of one other child.