Gregory Arthur Weiler II told his friends and relatives that he had had issues for years with religion. On Monday, Weiler was being held without bail in Oklahoma on terrorism charges stemming from what authorities say was a plot to blow up dozens of churches with Molotov cocktails.
Weiler, of Elk Grove Village, Ill., has been charged under Oklahoma’s tough anti-terrorism laws passed after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building that killed 168 people. The attack was by a group of Americans who said they acted out of hate for the federal government and its actions at Waco, Texas, where 76 men, women and children died while federal agents tried to execute a warrant on the Branch Davidian cult.
