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Army Private Who Consumed ISIS Propaganda Indicted After Giving Satanic Neo-Nazi Group Details About Own Unit To Orchestrate Attack

Ashe Schow
Army Private Who Consumed ISIS Propaganda Indicted After Giving Satanic Neo-Nazi Group Details About Own Unit To Orchestrate Attack
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A U.S. Army private who read Islamic State and neo-Nazi propaganda shared his own unit’s details to an extremist group to orchestrate an attack.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York indicted Ethan Phelan Melzer, who went by Etil Reggad, after he worked with the extremist group Order of the Nine Angles (O9A) to carry out an attack on his Army unit. The 14-page indictment details how Melzer read O9A and ISIS propaganda before reaching out to the neo-Nazi group to orchestrate the attack.

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