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06/16/2008: "Feds accuse militia member of planning to shoot black people from a Downtown high-rise."

A federal judge in Johnstown on Wednesday declined to jail a Clearfield County man accused of telling undercover agents last year that he planned to visit Pittsburgh to shoot black people from a Downtown high-rise.

Bradley T. Kahle, 60, of Troutville had been in custody since Sunday, when the Pittsburgh Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested him and others on weapons charges. Agents discovered 16 improvised explosive devices while searching the home of the Vietnam veteran and self-proclaimed militiaman.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Pete Pesto said he wasn't convinced that Kahle posed a threat.

"I get no indication he was about to go from talking to doing," said Pesto, who placed Kahle on house arrest with electronic monitoring.

[ Kahle shouldn't have been talking like that. ]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_572278.html