U.S. Army private admits plotting attack on military unit

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https://apnews.com/article/new-york-manhattan-kentucky-louisville-us-army-c2d9ec281cca5267c25c6395f8cb1761

U.S. Army private admits plotting attack on military unit

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
yesterday

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Army private from Kentucky pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he plotted to murder members of his unit in an attack that he planned to carry out in 2020 on behalf of a group that promotes extreme violence to bring about the demise of Western civilization, authorities said.

Ethan Phelan Melzer, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court. Sentencing was set for Jan. 6, when he could face up to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to murder U.S. military service members, seeking to support terrorists and illegally transmitting national defense information.

In court papers, federal authorities say Melzer was already a member of a radical violent group known as the Order of Nine Angles, or 09A, before joining the Army in December 2018. According to a criminal complaint, the group is an anarchist group founded in the United Kingdom and now operating around the world, including in the U.S.

Authorities said he had sought to earn a self-initiation into 09A through violence as a street-level drug dealer after shooting a marijuana dealer in the arm in January 2017 near his Louisville apartment.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. 09A? Never heard of these assholes.

[Nevilledog]

3. That was my first thought too.

I was expecting Atomwaffen tbh

[ck4829]

6. Atomwaffen counts O9A as an influence on their ideology

This article is grossly incorrect.

[secondwind]

2. All I can say is "throw away the key".......... good riddance

[mercuryblues]

4. Anarchist group?

talk about an understatement

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/06/25/army-private-admits-plotting-attack-on-his-own-unit-ahead-of-deployment/

The Order of the Nine Angles is described by the Justice Department as a racially motivated violent extremist group. Members have “espoused violent, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and Satanic beliefs, and have expressed admiration for both Nazis, such as Adolf Hitler, and Islamic jihadists, such as Usama Bin Laden, the now-deceased former leader of Al Qaeda,” the indictment reads.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Nine Angles?

What are the Nine Angles?

Or was it supposed to be Angels, but these morons can't spell for shit?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. For fuck's sake, AP, neo-Nazi is not "anarchist"

Did the reporter not go to school? The Nazis were all about ruling. Therefore, their acolytes are not "anarchist".

A better background:

Founded in the UK in the 1970s, the ONA is an increasing focus for law enforcement and has appeared as an influence in several recent UK terrorism prosecutions relating to the extreme right-wing.

The group lionises the Nazi era and dates its calendar from the birth of Adolf Hitler, but its supernatural belief system goes beyond anything normally associated with right-wing extremism.

Its short-term goal is to undermine what it caricatures as a decadent Judeo-Christian society, with an emphasis placed on real-world acts, the aim being a new imperial civilization based a cruel mixture of Social Darwinism, Satanism, and Fascism.
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The ONA has acted as an influence on several neo-Nazi extremist groups, including the US-based Atomwaffen Division - linked to five murders - and the Sonnenkrieg Division, which was banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK earlier this year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-53141759