| Tampa,
Florida - May 1998 |
|
| Police arrested Brian Pickett of the NA and others
for allegedly planning to detonate pipe bombs across Central
Florida as a diversion for bank robberies.
|
| East
St. Louis, Illinois - March 1998 |
|
Federal authorities thwarted an alleged plot by
a group patterning itself after the terrorist gang The Order.
Officials say the men had been hatching a plot to bomb ADL's
national headquarters and other targets.
|
| Orlando,
Florida - October 1997 |
|
NA member Todd Vanbiber was sentenced to 6 1/2
years in prison for constructing and possessing explosives.
|
| Jackson,
Mississippi - April 1996 |
|
Larry Wayne Shoemake, reportedly an admirer of
The Turner Diaries and other NA literature, went on a
shooting rampage, killing one African American and injuring
even others.
|
| Fayetteville,
NC - December 1995 |
|
| Two U.S. Army soldiers stationed at
Fort Bragg were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for
gunning down an African-American couple. They were avowed neo-Nazis
and reportedly read NA propaganda.
|
| Oklahoma
City, OK - April 1995 |
|
The Murrah Federal building is bombed, taking
168 lives. The blast is eerily reminiscent of a fictional bombing
scene in The Turner Diaries. Timothy McVeigh, a Turner
Diaries devotee, was convicted and sentenced to death for
the bombing.
|
| Midwest
(IN, KY, OH) 1992-1996 |
|
Authorities say the "Aryan Republican Army," a
white supremacist gang that required members to read The
Turner Diaries, committed 22 bank robberies and bombings
across the Midwest.
|
| Northwest
(ID, MT, OR, WA) - Early 1980s |
|
Members of The Order, modeling themselves on a
fictional group of revolutionaries in The Turner Diaries,
went on a crime spree that included bombings, robberies and
a synagogue burning.
|
E-Mail This Report
Printable Version
