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A neo-Nazi terror cell enmeshed in the US Marine Corps made plans to attack the power grid last fall, hoping to set the stage to carry out assassinations in their quest to create a white ethno-state, according to a new indictment issued last month. Arrests in the government’s takedown of the terror cell, whose members called themselves “BSN,” began in October 2020, starting with founders Liam Montgomery Collins and Paul James Kryscuk, and gradually expanding to include three others through June 2021. Collins and Kryscuk were initially charged with surreptitiously manufacturing and transporting firearms for profit, but in November 2020, a superseding indictment charged them with manufacturing and shipping firearms, including suppressors, “with the intention that they be used unlawfully in the furtherance of civil disorder.” As has previously been reported, members fantasized about shooting Black Lives Matter protesters in Boise, Idaho in the summer of 2020. The most recent indictment, handed down on Aug. 18, adds a new charge of conspiracy to sabotage an energy facility. The purpose, according to the government was “to attack the power grid both for the purpose of creating general chaos and to provide cover and ease of escape in those areas in which they planned to undertake assassinations and other desired operations to further their goal of creating a white ethno-state.” (…) Collins, Kryscuk, Duncan and Maurino discussed using homemade thermite — described as “a combination of metal powder and metal oxide which burns at temperatures over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit” — to “burn through and destroy power transformers.” The government also alleges that Collins, BSN’s acknowledged leader, asked Hermanson and MW to Tannerite, a brand of binary explosive that is an ingredient in thermite. The government alleges that Kryscuk had a list of transformers, substations and other components of the power grid at about a dozen different Idaho and neighboring states on Oct. 20, around the time of his arrest. (…) Liam Montgomery Collins and Paul James Kryscuk, the two earliest members of BSN, met on Iron March, a neo-Nazi online forum founded by Russian nationalist Alexander “Slavros” Mukhitdinov, in 2011. The forum shut down without explanation in November 2017. Two years later, anonymous researchers leaked the entire history of chats, and a website associated with the @JewishWorker Twitter account was set up to provide a searchable database of the contents. In its day, Iron March provided a forum to connect violent racists and allow them to meet up in real life. Participants in the forum, including future members of AtomWaffen and Vanguard America, embraced an accelerationist strain of white supremacy that rejects political solutions and calls for violent insurrection to bring about a race war. AtomWaffen is tied to multiple murders. A man who rallied with Vanguard America at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist marchers, murdering Heather Heyer; a splinter group from Vanguard America rebranded itself as Patriot Front.

via rawstory: Ex-Marines in neo-Nazi terror cell planned to attack power grid as precursor to assassination campaign: government

Matthew Cronjager, who joined the boy’s group, had been jailed for plotting a terrorist attack. A UK extremist group run by a teenage boy who once threatened to blow up a mosque, included a neo-Nazi who faces a lengthy jail sentence for plotting a terrorist attack. The boy, now 16, set up The British Hand, a far-right group, when he was 14 and ran it on Telegram, the encrypted social media site. He vetted others in private chat groups where they talked about “doing something” against ethnic minorities, and discussed weapons, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. “I am planning a [sic] attack against the Dover coast where every Muslim and refugee has been given safey [sic] if your [sic] interested tell me now,” he wrote in one post. (…) The 18-year-old neo-Nazi, from Essex, tried to get hold of a 3D printed gun to kill his teenage target, whom he likened to a cockroach. Prosecutor Alistair Richardson said Cronjager is facing a jail sentence in “double figures” after being convicted of preparing for acts of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications on Telegram, having previously admitted four charges of possessing terrorist documents. (…) The boy received a caution in September 2019 for sending pictures of bombs to a fellow school pupil over Snapchat. He has previous convictions for a hate crime, after threatening to blow up a mosque on January 20 last year, and assaulting an emergency worker, by attacking a police officer who went to his home. The court heard that he also made a string of phone calls to mosques in London and was twice referred to the government’s Prevent de-radicalisation programme.

via national news: Schoolboy’s UK extremist group plotting attacks on migrants included neo-Nazi terrorist

siehe auch: Two neo-Nazis, 16, who wanted to ‘bomb London because it isn’t English’ and ran extremist right-wing group on Telegram after going down a ‘twisted rabbit hole’ in lockdown are spared jail. Boy A, 16, admitted founding extremist right-wing group called The British Hand
In one post he told members he was planning an attack ‘against the Dover coast’. Group included second 16-year-old who admitted sharing extremist propaganda. Court heard they had gone down ‘twisted rabbit hole’ during Covid-19 lockdown. Both teens were spared custody after admitting terrorist offences at court today with magistrate saying he changed his mind at 11pm the night before hearing. Two teenage Neo-Nazis who wanted to ‘bomb London because it wasn’t English’ and ran an extremist right-wing group online were spared jail today One 16-year-old boy set up the group, called The British Hand, which included a member who plotted a terror attack, it can now be revealed. The teenager, referred to as Boy A and from south Derbyshire, ran the group from August 5 last year, when he was just 14, on the encrypted Telegram app. He appeared for sentencing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court alongside another 16-year-old boy – Boy B – who was a member of The British Hand and also accused of sharing terrorist propaganda.  The court heard previously that the teenagers went down a ‘twisted rabbit hole’ in the first lockdown when they spent a ‘concerning’ amount of time online being radicalised by other young extremists.