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Update [2012-08-07 9:37 EST by Oui]: Deep, Deep Troubling …
Read article Oak Creek Gunman’s Supremacists Beliefs Revealed.
[Update] Must read:
- Mondoweiss – Terror war comes home: White supremacist kills 6 Sikhs in Wisconsin
- Informed Comment – White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence
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Emails From Iraq: How A Military Veteran Found His Way Into A Domestic ‘Terror’ Group
(TPM) August 1, 2012 – The story of how former Missouri National Guard Spc. Ryan Riley (28) got involved with a group that authorities now say planned for the collapse of the U.S. government was detailed amid hundreds of pages of documents recently made public in a criminal case against the group in Florida.
Known as American Front, the white supremacist organization was snared in a joint terrorism investigation by the FBI and Florida authorities earlier this year.
Riley told investigators he grew frustrated with “racial hypocrisies” in U.S. society and the military while he was serving in Iraq in 2008. He began to look for like minded people on the internet and soon found racist skinheads who shared his beliefs. He particularly liked a group that called itself American Front. He started posting messages to its website.
Riley said he used his personal laptop, logging on about twice a week while he was at Camp Stryker, to write messages and blog posts. Eventually, Faella, the group’s leader, sent him a message telling him to be careful in Iraq and encouraging him to keep posting.
They struck up a something of a friendship and kept in touch throughout the rest of the tour. After Riley returned stateside, they started talking by phone. Riley told investigators he talked to others in his unit about his racist beliefs, but he never met any other skinheads, at least not while serving in the Missouri National Guard.
By early 2011, Marcus Faella was asking Riley to become a “patched” or sworn member of American Front. He invited Riley down to a barbeque at the group’s compound in Florida. Riley told investigators he drove down from Missouri with a pistol, an AK-47 assault rifle and 200 pounds of ammunition.
“Faella also wanted to utilize Riley for firearms, survival and medical training,” the report said. “Riley believed Faella wanted this training because AF believed the U.S. was going to collapse, and they wanted to be prepared for the ensuing chaos.”
American Front: White supremacists accused of planning for ‘race war’ in Florida
- Intelligence Report: A Few Bad Men
- FBI statistics on U.S. domestic terrorism
- Citizen Soldiers
- The Transformation of American Conservativism into a Neo-Fascist Movement
