Signal Mountain man admits to plotting deadly attack against Muslims

Robert “Bob” Doggart

Robert Doggart wanted to burn Islamberg to the ground.

In a plea agreement filed in federal court April 29, the Signal Mountain resident and former District 4 congressional candidate admitted he spent months gathering weapons and plotting an all-out assault on the small Muslim enclave in Delaware County, New York.

“We shall be Warriors who will inflict horrible numbers of casualties upon the enemies of our Nation and World Peace,” he wrote in one Facebook post.

Doggart’s plan seems to have been based on the fear that Islamberg residents were themselves planning a terrorist attack, though local law enforcement say no such plan exists. The town is the headquarters of Muslims of America.

It “must be utterly destroyed in order to get the attention of the American people,” Doggart wrote in a February Facebook post.