This episode features secret FBI recordings that contain profanity and other offensive language.

We're including them in their unedited form to convey the full impact of this hateful rhetoric.

How can somebody, how a community as kind as God in city, as humble as God in city, can still have people like that?

Until today is just something beyond my mind, beyond anything that my brain can comprehend that people can be that hateful.

From ABC Audio, this is Truth and Lies, the Informed.

Episode 5. The Patriot

Garden City, Kansas, the small, close-knit community in the southern great plains.

A place anthropologist call an unlikely multicultural mecca, where 35 different languages are spoken in the high school,

where there's a mini replica of the Statue of Liberty in the middle of town.

It felt like a very different place on October 14, 2016.

The data Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright, and Curtis Allen's plan was revealed to the public, exposing a white, hot hatred that had shadowed southwest Kansas for years.

Eifer was at work when she received the news. Soon after, she drove straight to West Mary Street.

To the apartment complex through Crusaders planned to blow up with their homemade bombs.

She was familiar with the place, she lived down the street, and would often visit friends and loved ones who lived there.

When she arrived, she found a community in collective shock.

Faces clenched in fear as word of the plot spread, possibly triggering horrific memories of the deadly violence back in Somalia.

Some tenants wouldn't even leave their apartments, especially those with children.

Others talked about fleeing Garden City immediately, which Eifer understood as she considered it to.

The thought of what might have happened if the Crusaders weren't caught, shook her to her core. It felt surreal.

She'd come to Garden City and found refuge, only to wake up one day, to learn that a terrorist cabal was secretly preparing to destroy any and all Muslims right here in her home.

My heart just dropped and it's like, oh my goodness, not again.

It's kind of brought back a flashback like, oh my god, I have to do this again.

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