Brandon Russell, who has previously been jailed for possession of bomb-making materials, communicated with Australian extremists via Telegram. Brandon Russell, an American neo-Nazi who was charged this year with conspiring to attack the Maryland power grid, appears to have shared instructions on how to carry out such an attack months earlier in an Australian far-right channel on Telegram. Leaked chats show Russell posted extreme right propaganda and interacted with known Australian neo-Nazis on the encrypted messaging platform last year. Russell is the founder of Atomwaffen Division, which was proscribed by the Australian government as a terrorist organisation last year. The organisation, now known as the National Socialist Order, “advocates the use of violence to initiate a ‘race war’ to accelerate the collapse of western society and establish a ‘white ethno-state’,” the government’s listing said.
via guardian: US neo-Nazi accused of sniper plot appears to have shared instructions with Australian far-right figures