Distorted.

The “Crusaders” knew they wanted to kill and with luck, use the “bloodbath” to ignite a religious war but for months they couldn’t settle on a plan.

The easiest way would be to grab guns, go to the predominantly Somali apartment complex they’d been surveilling and start kicking in doors, court documents said. They would spare no one.

In the end, they decided to set off bombs similar to the one Timothy McVeigh used in 1995 to kill 168 people in Oklahoma City. They planned to strike after the Nov. 8 election, investigators said.

The three men face federal charges of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up an apartment complex, and a mosque.

It was ultimately undone by an FBI confidential informant and one of the conspirator’s girlfriend, who showed authorities the supply room after he allegedly hit her during a fight.

Earlier this year, investigators were tipped off by the informant, who had attended meetings of a group calling itself the Crusaders.   The Crusaders referred to the Somali as cockroaches.

Nothing like the help of a girl friend. Nothing like it.