Mountaineer Militia was a local anti-government paramilitary group, members of which plotted to blow up an FBI building in Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1996.
[2] The group had even considered the killing United States Senator Jay Rockefeller and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in a "holy war" against the "tiranous" U.S.
[3] While members of the group had been assembling large quantities of explosives and blasting caps, militia leader Floyd Raymond Looker obtained blueprints of the FBI facility from a Clarksburg, West Virginia firefighter.
[4][5] Looker was taken into custody after arranging to sell the blueprints for $50,000 to an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a representative of an international terrorist group.
[11] The group also posted a video on the internet called "America Under Siege," alleging acts authorized by the federal government against its own people.