By Eric Vandenbroeck and co-workers

The Turner Diaries

In March 2005, CNN carried a story in which Aryan Nations expressed support for al Qaeda and publicly announced that sleeper cells of non-Muslims were ready to fight alongside the organization.

In part four we have clearly shown the history of how this type of ‘sleeper cell’ concept developed during  new right terrorist activities in the 1970’s.

Although right-wing extremists have traditionally not practiced suicide ter­rorism, the theme occasionally appears in their literature, most notably in William Pierce's novel The Turner Diaries. The conclusion is strikingly similar to the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. The story's protagonist, Earl Turner, writes in his diary just hours before his scheduled attack:

It's still three hours until first flight, and all systems are "go." I'll use the time to write a few pages-my last diary entry. Then it's a one-way trip to the Pentagon for me. The warhead is strapped into the front seat of the old Stearman and rigged to detonate either on impact or when I flip a switch in the back seat. Hopefully, I'll be able to manage a low-level air burst directly over the center of the Pentagon. Failing that, I'll at least try to fly as close as I can before I'm shot down. (The Turner Diaries, 1993, p. 202.)

Not unlike Muhammad Atta, Turner expressed a sense of calm before his mission.

It is a comforting thought in these last hours of my physical existence that, of all the billions of men and women of my race who have ever lived, I will have been able to play a more vital role than all but a handful of them in determining the ultimate destiny of mankind. What I will do today will be of more weight in the annals of the race than all the conquests of Caesar and Napoleon-if! succeed! (Ibid., p. 202.)

March 2005, Federal agents arrested 10 people in Illinois and seized a large weapons cache, which included hand grenades and more than 50 machine guns. The owner of the property, Randall Brown, possessed white supremacist literature and paraphernalia.

And in May that same year a security camera captured a hooded, Sean Gillespie just after he threw the fire bomb into the Oklahoma City synagogue. Gillespie next spent a great deal of time bragging to authorities and espousing his views when he was detained after the firebombing.He told them he thought he was being arrested for racial attacks that occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas, and he claimed to have been involved in a string of hate attacks from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Spokane, Washington. Interesting he also made his own video about the event and the preparations that led up to it.

U.S. Attorney Robert McCampbell said he believes Gillespie was making a training tape that he wanted to share with other white supremacists. Al Qaeda members sometimes make tapes like this one, usually before they die in a suicide attack. Whatever Gillespie's motivations were, the tape proved a windfall for prosecutors. (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/03/schuster.column/index.html)

The current April 27, immigration debate in the US once more is drawing attention from white supremacists, whose chat rooms are abuzz with anti-immigration sentiment. White supremacist groups such as the National Vanguard and the National Socialist Movement hope to use the immigration issue as a public relations and recruiting tool.

Using a method similar to the "loss leader" sales technique, these groups today hope to gain new sympathizers' attention and then "educate" them about what the groups consider the real threat: Jews. According to their chat room and blog discussions, white supremacist groups ultimately blame Jewish interests in the U.S. government for an immigration policy they consider harmful to the white race. The immigration policy is only part of what the white supremacists consider an overall scheme by Jewish interests to dominate the United States and use other races, such as blacks and Hispanics, to undermine the "Aryan" white race.

Though the white supremacists' message does not seem to be much different from what it was before the immigration issue's resurgence, their target audience has changed.

Among the oldest of the white supremacist Web sites is Stormfront.org, which claims to have nearly 38,000 members. It is not unusual to visit the site and find more than 700 people on it at one time. Stormfront and other sites like it offer news from a white supremacist perspective, tips on weapons and self-defense, advice on activism and even an Aryan dating chat room. This online community offers a much larger exchange of ideas than a five- or six-person local NA unit ever could. Other popular white hate Web pages include the NA's Nationalvanguard.org and the Missouri-based Vanguard News Network. The Nationalvanguard site is a slick and polished information portal run by NA member Kevin Strom. It is one facet of the NA that even the group's critics agree is well-run, and likely will survive even if the group does not.

Another trend we have noted is the increasing availability of white supremacist music. Not only is it profitable, as the NA has found through its Resistance Records business arm, but it is distributing the movement's message to rebellious teens on a much wider scale than was possible in the past.

Previously, radical elements of the various white supremacist groups participated in violent acts, including firebombings, beatings and murders of minority targets. As a result, law enforcement took deliberate action against them, jailing many white supremacist leaders and shutting down several groups.

White supremacist groups have since learned from these experiences and are trying to continue their activities more subtly. Part of this involves splitting into smaller ad hoc cells that just like with recruitment by al-Qaeda, exist more in online chat rooms than in actual physical compounds or meeting places. Members of law enforcement or military organizations are considered especially valuable recruits, mainly as counterintelligence assets and potential sources of knowledge and training.

Our friend Peter Lance recently completed a book on related issues (so we do not have to go into that now) which will be published later this year titled “Triple Cross : How Bin Laden's Chief Security Adviser Penetrated the CIA, the FBI, and the Green Berets.”

And when CNN asked August Kreis (whose résumé includes stops at --Posse Comitatus, the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nation) if he had any message for Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants the current leader of Aryan Nations answered: "The message is, the cells are out here and they are already in place," Kreis said. "They might not be cells of Islamic people, but they are here and they are ready to fight."

Kreis wants to make common cause with al Qaeda because, he says, they share the same enemies: Jews and the American government. The terms they use may be different: White supremacists call them ZOG, the Zionist Occupation Government, while al Qaeda calls them the Jews and Crusaders.

Although they do not receive widespread media attention, arrests are regularly made -- usually in connection with possession of weapons or the falsification of documents. These arrests often reveal the potential for other large-scale attacks.

 

 

Postscript: The reason why in the historical part of this research report except for a few instances, we have said very little about post-WWII activities of “Hitlers willing executioners” in the middle east. The reason is that we have so much material on this that we will devote a complete special research report on it later this year. For now, just a sampling (the tip of the iceberg).

 

For example Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s aide who played a central role in the extermination of the Jewish communities of Slovakia and Greece, has spent virtually all the postwar years in Egypt and Syria, where he is still believed to live to this day.Egypt in particular threw open its doors, and this was not merely a case of offering refuge or asylum: as the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser put it, "We will use the services of those who know the mentality of our enemies". Franz Bartel, previously the assistant Gestapo chief of Katowice, worked in the "Jewish Department" of Egypt’s war office, while Standartenfuhrer Baumann, who took part in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, worked for the Palestine Liberation Front - based in Egypt - as did SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Wilhelm Borner. Several Nazi doctors found work in Egypt after the war, including Dr Herbert Heim, responsible for "experiments" on prisoners at Mauthausen camp, and Dr Willerman, who committed similar atrocities at Dachau. The fact that these Nazis were positively welcomed in Egypt is emphasised by Nasser’s repeated refusals to extradite them for war crimes, even to his East European and Soviet allies.

 

It was in the area of anti-Jewish propaganda that Nasser most desired Nazi expertise, and the Institute for the Study of Zionism, established in Cairo in 1959, employed several former officials of Goebbels’ propaganda ministry. Luis Heiden, one former Nazi propaganda official, prepared a pocket-sized Arabic translation of Mein Kampf which was issued as a gift to Egyptian army officers. The institute also played a role in another arm of Egypt’s anti-Jewish activities: building contacts with neo-nazis around the world. In 1962 Colonel Muhammad al-Shazli, the Military Attache at the Egyptian Embassy in London, held a series of meetings with (prominent British neo-Nazis) Colin Jordan and John Tyndall to discuss funding of £15,000 from the United Arab Republic for Jordan’s National Socialist Movement.

 

Gerhard Frey of the far-right German DW visited Egypt in 1964 and Iraq in 1968, where he was received by the President of Iraq and the Prime Minister of Kuwait. Meanwhile the Arab League representative in Bonn, Hassan Fakoussa, maintained contact with several neo-Nazi writers in Germany. Hussein Triqi, the Arab League’s man in Argentina, openly admitted his close relations with local neo-nazi groups, inviting local neo-nazis to speak at rallies organised by his Arab League office. And as Holocaust denial became a central part of neo-Nazi propaganda, so it followed that Arab backing for neo-Nazi activity in the West increasingly involved denial of the Holocaust. The notion that Israel was formed by Western powers to purge their guilt for the Holocaust - and that Israel uses the Holocaust to justify occupation of Palestinian land - has encouraged the idea that Holocaust denial helps the Palestinian cause by undermining Israeli legitimacy. In March 1976 the Saudi Arabian representative to the United Nations  used Holocaust denial in a speech to the UN Security Council, claiming that Anne Frank’s diary was a forgery and gas chambers were an invention of "the Zionist mass media". The following year the Saudi government provided US$25,000 to American neo-Nazi William Grimstad of the National Alliance to write AntiZion, a collation of quotes from antisemites throughout history.

 

In 1981, Inamullah Khan, head of the Pakistan-based World Muslim League, put up the money for AntiZion and The Six Million Reconsidered - also by Grimstad - to be mailed to every British MP and members of the US Congress and Senate, and in the 1980s, Britain’s National Front received funding from the Libyan and Iranian embassies in London. Nor is this adoption of neo-Nazi propaganda limited to Holocaust denial. The notorious antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is now much more widely available from Arab or Muslim publishers than from the far right, often masquerading under titles such as Jewish Conspiracy and the Muslim World or Zionism and Internal Security.

 

The French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy was feted in the Middle East when he was put on trial in France in 1998 for denying crimes against humanity. The Palestinian Writers Association, the Beirut Bar Association and Egypt’s Arab Lawyers’ Union were among those who supported Garaudy. Naim Tubasi, head of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, spoke of "the Zionist tale of the victims of the Holocaust", while Lebanon’s Union of Arab Journalists applauded Garaudy’s "courage to divulge Zionist lies". Invited to Egypt by Farouk Hosni, Egyptian Minister for Culture, Garaudy was accorded an hour-long interview on Egyptian state television in which he discussed his views on the Holocaust at length and argued that "95% of the media in the western world are controlled by the Israel lobby". Senior Iranian politicians also rallied to Garaudy’s side: Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, President of Iran until 1997, said that he was convinced only 200,000 Jews died during the war, while Ayatollah Yazdi, head of the Iranian judiciary, claimed that Garaudy "proved that the Zionists fabricated such a big lie in history so as to justify their occupation of Palestine". Thus it is common today to for example see , the official Palestinian newspaper, al-Hayat al-Jadida, calling the Holocaust a "deceitful myth,"  the Syrian government daily Syria Times denying the existence of gas chambers, and so on, most of it the result of former Nazi propaganda.

 

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