U.S. based right wing terrorists linked to foreign right wing terrorists are breaking news after right wing terrorists were minutes away from overthrowing the U.S. Government.
"During the past two years, U.S. counterterrorism officials held meetings with their European counterparts to discuss an emerging threat: right-wing terror groups becoming increasingly global in their reach.
American neo-Nazis were traveling to train and fight with militias in the Ukraine. There were suspected links between U.S. extremists and the Russian Imperial Movement, a white supremacist group that was training foreigners in its St. Petersburg compounds. A gunman accused of killing 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 had denounced a “Hispanic invasion” and praised a white supremacist who killed 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and who had been inspired by violent American and Italian racists.
But the efforts to improve transatlantic cooperation against the threat ran into a recurring obstacle. During talks and communications, senior Trump administration officials steadfastly refused to use the term “right-wing terrorism,” causing disputes and confusion with the Europeans, who routinely use the phrase, current and former European and U.S. officials told ProPublica. Instead, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security referred to “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism,” while the State Department chose “racially or ethnically motivated terrorism."
White supremacists are building international networks to spread their violent ideology. Efforts at transatlantic counterterrorism cooperation hit an obstacle: the politics of the Trump Administration.
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Global Right-Wing Extremism Networks Are Growing. The U.S. Is Just Now Catching Up.
Al Qaeda & McCaine: Sara Palin’s AIP is linked to Chechen separatists & Al Qaeda
"Because John McCain has not learned how to "watch the internet" or "use the Google", it has been left to the public to vet Sarah Palin for him. I was curious what shady types would attend separatist conventions, such as the one in Tennessee, where the AIP Vice Chairman Dexter Clark extolled the virtues of their candidate Sarah Palin. I expected that hatred for the American Federal Government would bring white supremacists (as speculated in the Daily Kos) and small-time individual hate criminals into their circus tent.
But I did not expect AIP to link itself to a foreign terrorist group personally funded by Osama Bin Laden, that has been merging into Al Qaeda for years, is linked to 4 of the 9/11 hijackers, and other Al Qaeda attacks. That’s right, the Palins are only 2 or 3 degrees removed from the man that McCain swears he would pursue to the gates of hell - Osama Bin Laden.
The LA Times broke the story that the AIP has a link to the Chechen separatists on its website. “The AIP’s website also provides helpful links to other secessionist groups, including the Southern Independence Party of Tennessee (which boasts of going after “these Politically Correct Liberal Communist[s]“), Ulster nationalists and Chechen separatists.” (http://www.latimes.com). Remembering the Beslan school and hospital massacres, and Russian bus and tram bombings, I had to read that twice. I have now compiled an overview of the increasingly indistinguishable relationship between the AIP’s Chechen friends and Al Qaeda:
The Al Qaeda/Chechen Separatist relationship has been evolving since the 1990s. The Bush Administration initially downplayed the Russian assertions that the Chechen terrorists were affiliated with Al Qaeda. However, President Bush later acknowledged Russia’s claims, stating: “We do believe there’s some al Qaeda folks in Chechnya.” (http://www.sfgate.com). 'Washington also called on Chechen separatists to “cut all contact with international terrorist groups." ' (http://www.sfgate.com)
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I wrote this in 2010:
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
“Gunmen Dead After Attack on Chechen Parliament”-2nd Amendment Solution?
You can read about the deadly attack on the Chechen Parliament in today’s New York Times. You also can read about the links between the Alaskan Independence Party and the Chechen Rebels in the La Times article below. Sara Palin and her husband Todd are linked to the Alaskan Independence Party.
I think the attack on the Chechen Parliament is exactly what Sara Palin, Sharon Angle, and other Republicans have in mind when they say “lock and load” and talk about “2nd Amendment Solutions.”
New York Times October 19, 2010
"Gunmen Dead After Attack on Chechen Parliament
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
MOSCOW — Heavily armed gunmen burst into the Parliament building of Chechnya, in southern Russia, on Tuesday morning, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen before the assailants were killed by police officers or by their own explosives, officials said."
From the LA Times:
“Over the years, Palin has actively courted the Alaska Independence Party, or AIP, an organization that supports Alaskan secession from the U.S. To be clear, we're not necessarily talking about friendly secession either: As the AIP's founder, Joe Vogler, told an interviewer in 1991: ‘The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. ... And I won't be buried under their damn flag.’…
The AIP's website also provides helpful links to other secessionist groups, including the Southern Independence Party of Tennessee (which boasts of going after "these Politically Correct Liberal Communist[s]"), Ulster nationalists and Chechen separatists.”
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Opinion
Palin's secession flirtation By Rosa Brooks September 4, 2008
"For years she has courted the Alaska Independence Party, which wants to split the state from the U.S.”
There is a shortage of ammunition in the USA in large part because of militia groups stocking up in anticipation of a “2nd Amendment solution. Whether the wing nut Republicans win or lose we will have to deal with the violence that extremist Republicans and their backers at Fox News have brought about.
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