The plotters considered hitting US President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters and other targets with "incendiary devices," the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday.
The three men were ordered held on $1.5 million bail each yesterday after they were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary device, the Tribune said.
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The arrests came amid a series of Chicago police raids on protesters planning demonstrations of the NATO summit this weekend. The Tribune said the charges were the result of a month-long investigation into a group believed to be responsible for making Molotov cocktails.
The men were charged late on Friday, as police released another six protesters who were arrested in a Wednesday raid on an apartment building in the Bridgeport neighborhood.
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The National Lawyers Guild added that the men were merely protesters who were in possession of beer-making equipment that was found in the apartment they were staying in during the police raid Wednesday.
"Charging these people who are here to peacefully protest against NATO for terrorism, when in reality the police have been terrorising activists in Chicago, is absolutely outrageous," Mr Gelsomino told the Tribune.
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