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Default US/UK right wing terrorism thread

I know that terrorism is a big issue on the TIBB boards; a quick glance at the SD section will show a few jihadi threads at any one time, and yet all these people that consume this news and post it here never ever seem to read anything about any other kind of terrorism, which I'm sure is just an oversight and not done intentionally.

If anyone wants to create a left wing terror thread, then go for it, that would be interesting too.

So lets kick off with some recent news stories.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8794476.html

An alleged right-wing extremist has been arrested on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism.

Counterterror police are searching the 33-year-old man’s home in Leeds following an “intelligence-led” operation.

Investigators said the man was arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts.

“He has been taken to a police station in West Yorkshire for questioning,” a spokesperson for Counter Terrorism Policing North East said.

“This is a pre-planned, intelligence-led arrest as part of an investigation into suspected extreme right-wing activity.”

Superintendent Chris Bowen urged anyone with concerns to speak to local officers, or contact the national counterterror reporting service.

“I understand our communities will have concerns about this police activity but I want to offer my reassurance that public safety is our top priority,” he said.

It comes after the head of UK counterterror policing warned of a rise in far-right activity.

Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Neil Basu told The Independent: “We’re dealing with a record number of operations and the potential of a growing extreme threat from the extreme far-right community for all kinds of reasons – not just because of the Islamist threat but things like Brexit, and some of the far-right political rhetoric which hasn’t helped.”

Speaking last month, he urged the public to stay alert and warned of “insidious tactics” being used to recruit online.

The counterextremism group Hope Not Hate has found that children as young as 13 were becoming involved in a new wave of neo-Nazi groups that are gathering support on the internet.

“The trend towards younger, more violent Nazis is a real concern and needs to be monitored closely,” researchers said.

“The threat of far-right terrorism comes from both organised groups, like National Action, but increasingly from lone actors who get radicalised on the internet.”

Security services say the dominant terror threat to the UK comes from Isis and other Islamist groups, but have warned of the growing risk posed by the far right following the Finsbury Park attack and murder of Jo Cox.

Neo-Nazi group National Action became the first right-wing group banned in Britain in 2016.

Former members include a man who plotted to murder a Labour MP, another who tried to behead an Asian man in Tesco, a teenager who tried to make a pipe bomb and an extremist who planned a massacre at an LGBT+ pride event.

The proportion of far-right terror suspects has been rising in the UK, and the number of people referred to the Prevent programme over suspected far-right extremism has rocketed by 36 per cent in a year.

In the year to September, 40 per cent of terror suspects arrested were white, 33 per cent were Asian, 12 per cent were black and 14 per cent were recorded as other.

Police say 14 Islamist terror plots and four from far-right extremists have been foiled since the Westminster attack in March 2017.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/coast-g...ot-11550706915



WASHINGTON—A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-described white nationalist was arrested after authorities said they found more than a dozen firearms, ammunition and a hit list of Democratic lawmakers, activists and media personalities in his Maryland home.

Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested Friday on charges of illegal gun possession. But prosecutors said in subsequent court filings that those charges were the “proverbial tip of the iceberg,” accusing him of being a domestic terrorist “bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect governmental conduct.”

Neither Lt. Hasson nor an attorney representing him could be reached for comment.

Lt. Hasson is expected to appear before a judge Thursday for a hearing to determine whether he should remain detained while he awaits trial, as prosecutors recommend.

“The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” federal prosecutors said in court filings. The government said he had been stockpiling weapons since at least 2017 and recently developed a spreadsheet of targets that included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democratic officials, journalists and pundits.

The list also included Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), to whom he referred as “Sen blumen jew,” and former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. He developed the list in an Excel spreadsheet he created last month while searching the internet and reviewing various cable news websites at work, prosecutors said.

His internet searches included, “where do most senators live in dc” and questions about whether lawmakers and Supreme Court justices have law enforcement protection, according to court documents.

Lt. Hasson, who prosecutors said had long espoused extremist views, called for violence to establish a “white homeland,” writing in letters to a friend that, “I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth.”

Court documents list an arsenal of weapons allegedly stockpiled by Lt. Hasson, including rifles and pistols. Records also show he purchased “80% lower receivers,” which are partially-machined components that can be used to make firearms that don’t have serial numbers or fall under typical federal-firearms laws.

Lt. Hasson also purchased body armor, which is lightly-regulated by federal authorities and has come under scrutiny because of its ready availability even to civilians.

Court documents also allege Lt. Hasson stockpiled human growth hormone “to increase his ability to conduct attacks” as well as Tramadol, a narcotic. He also allegedly purchased synthetic urine online, and when law enforcement agents searched his workspace they found items he appeared to have on hand in case he was randomly drug tested as a member of the military.

Lt. Hasson’s arrest came after an investigation led by the Coast Guard Investigation Services in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department. Lt. Hasson was stationed at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Scott McBride declined to provide further details about the defendant.

Court documents say that in his capacity as an acquisitions officer, Lt. Hasson hasn’t received any tactical, weapons or explosives-related training. But prosecutors note that he was a U.S. Marine and spent two years on active duty in the National Guard following that.

Lt. Hasson joined the Marine Corps in 1988 as an F-18 jet-aircraft mechanic and rose to the rank of corporal in 1992, according to Marine spokesman Capt. Joseph Butterfield. The Marines couldn’t immediately say when he left the service because his record is archived at a remote location.

Prosecutors describe him as obsessed with neo-Nazi views. In a draft letter discovered by investigators, he wrote that he had been a skinhead for 30 years, since before joining the military, and advocated for “focused violence” to create a “white homeland.” He had been fixated on a manifesto by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, mimicking the preparations he took for a 2011 attack that killed 77 people.

“Guide my hate to make a lasting impression on this world,” he wrote in one letter cited by prosecutors.
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