US Soldier Charged With Plotting Against Own Unit, Leaking Info to Neo-Nazis
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Army soldier charged with giving classified info to neo-Nazi group
A U.S. Army soldier stationed overseas has been charged with passing along information about his unit's planned deployment overseas, intending it to get extremist groups to attack it.
Army Private Ethan Phelan Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Kentucky, faces a host of federal attempted murder charges, handed up Monday by a federal grand jury, that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. John Demers, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's national security division said Melzer "planned a deadly ambush on his fellow soldiers in the service of...
From the Center
UK Nazi Satanist group should be outlawed, campaigners urge
British neo-Nazi Satanist group should be outlawed by the government as a terrorist organisation, according to a report from anti-racism campaigners.
Hope Not Hate has used its annual State of Hate report to call for the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) to be banned.
The Home Office said the list of proscribed terrorist groups was kept "under review."
Last week two British extreme right-wing organisations were added their number.
From the Right
US soldier charged with planning 'jihadi' attack on own Army unit by leaking to Neo-Nazi Satanic group
A soldier in the U.S. Army was charged with attempting to carry out a “mass casualty” terrorist attack on his own unit overseas by leaking sensitive info to the Order of the Nine Angles, a Neo-Nazi and satanic group, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
U.S. Army Pvt. Ethan Melzer, 22, was arrested “for allegedly planning an attack on his U.S. Army unit by sending sensitive details about the unit — including information about its location, movements, and security” to the occult-based extremist group which he secretly joined in 2019....
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