A white nationalist group in 2016 talked about detonating an explosive device at one of its events in Harrisburg to kill protestors.

That is the allegation contained in a legal brief assistant U.S. Attorney George J. Rocktashel filed Friday in U.S. Middle District Court in support of the charges against Justin Daniel Lough, a reputed member of the Aryan Strikeforce from Waynesboro, Va.

The prosecutor was replying to the claim by assistant public defender D. Toni Byrd that the charges against Lough and five co-defendants are based on a crime the government "manufactured." She was referring to the controlled methamphetamine and firearms transactions that are the basis of the charges in the indictment.

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