‘Our bombings would be blamed on Muslims’ said planners of a coup d’etat.

Rightwingers planning a coup d’etat believed their terrorist deeds would be blamed on Muslim fundamentalists, the Pretoria High Court Boeremag treason trial heard on Friday.

…. Smit said the meeting considered ways of plunging the country into chaos to prompt blacks to rise up and attack whites, who would then be in a position to act “defensively”. Terrorist deeds formed part of this “trigger” phase of the coup plot.

So much for the idea that the extreme right wouldn’t try engineer something like a terror attack to grab or consolidate power.

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