Cheers, Ken Hanly
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net> To: "asdnet" <asdnet at igc.topica.com>; "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:15 AM Subject: US Nazis praise the suicide hijackers
> US Nazis praise the suicide hijackers
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> By Oliver Poole in Oklahoma City
>
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/01/wnazi01.x
> ml
> Daily Telegraph (UK)
> (Filed: 01/10/2001)
>
>
> AMERICA'S most extreme far-Right "patriot" organisations - those supported
> by Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber - have welcomed the
> September 11 terrorist attacks as a strike on their common enemy, the
> government.
>
> While the vast majority of Americans have reacted with horror at what
> happened and been swept up by the national outpouring of grief and
> patriotism that followed, a number of underground groups have rushed to
> voice support for the terrorists.
>
> Others have called for militia groups to exploit the chaos caused by the
> terrorist actions and launch their own assault on the state. Billy Roper,
of
> the neo-Nazi National Alliance, posted a message on his website saying:
"The
> enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friend.
>
> "We may not want them marrying our daughter, just as they would not want
us
> marrying theirs. We may not want them in our societies, just as they would
> not want us in theirs. But anyone willing to drive a plane into a building
> to kill Jews is all right by me. I wish our members had half us much
> testicular fortitude."
>
> Other postings include August Kreis, leader of a Nazi group called the
> Sheriff's Posse Comitatus, based in Ulysses, Pennsylvania, praising the
> "Islamic freedom fighters" on his website, and Tom Metzger, of the White
> Aryan Resistance, who said of the September 11 attack: "If an Aryan wants
an
> example of 'Victory or Valhalla' look no further."
>
> The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which for 30 years has monitored
extremist
> groups in the United States, said that these sentiments were common among
> white supremist organisations. The centre briefs the government on the
> activity of "patriot" and neo-Nazi groups.
>
> Mark Potok, the centre's director of publications, said that the
extremists
> considered themselves at war with the government, which they have named
the
> Zionist Occupation Government, or ZOG. Regardless of their racial beliefs,
> many express solidarity with those who attack their enemy as long as they
do
> not want to settle in America.
>
> McVeigh's anger at government actions against such groups - particularly
the
> FBI's siege of Waco in 1995, which ended when followers of David Koresh
set
> their compound on fire, killing more than 80 people - caused him to leave
a
> bomb outside the Alfred P Murrah Building.
>
> Mr Potok said: "It has been primarily the white supremist, neo-Nazi
groups,
> who are among the most extreme of the extreme Right organisations, who
have
> supported the September 11 attack. It illustrates the sea change that has
> occurred in their thinking over the last 25 years.
>
> "Then, they wrapped themselves in the flag and proclaimed themselves 100
per
> cent American. Now they are willing to join America's enemies if it will
> help create the state they want to establish."
>
> Although the number of "patriot" groups has dwindled from 800 in the
> mid-1990s to fewer than 200, many are believed to have extensive arsenals.
> There are also believed to be around 600 neo-Nazi groups.
>
>
>