Moar on O9A Soldier
A 22-year-old soldier has been charged with planning an attack on his Army unit in an indictment unsealed in federal court Monday.
Ethan Melzer of Louisville, Ky., allegedly sent sensitive details about his unit, including locations, movements and security measures, to members of an extremist organization named Order of the Nine Angles, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement issued Monday.
Melzer was charged with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country.
Melzer was arrested June 10 after the FBI and Army had discovered his plot and thwarted it in late May, the statement said.
He operated under the alias of Etil Reggad, according to the indictment. (daggeR litE)
His Army unit was not identified in the indictment nor in the statement.
“As the indictment lays out, Ethan Melzer plotted a deadly ambush on his fellow soldiers in the service of a diabolical cocktail of ideologies laced with hate and violence,” John C. Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, said in the statement.
Melzer was “motivated by racism and hatred as he attempted to carry out this ultimate act of betrayal,” said Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where the indictment was filed.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/soldier-charged-with-plotting-terrorist-attack-against-his-deployed-army-unit-1.634799
[ This photo provided by the Department of Justice seized from an iCloud account belonging to U.S. Army Pvt. Ethan Melzer displays personal effects, including paraphernalia associated with the extremist group Order of the Nine Angles. ]
According to the criminal complaint, Melzer deployed abroad with the army in October 2019.
He explored propaganda from multiple extremist groups, including O9A and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the complaint continues.
“The FBI seized from an iCloud account maintained by Melzer an ISIS-issued document with a title that included the phrase ‘HARVEST OF THE SOLDIERS,'” court records state. “And described attacks and murders of U.S. personnel in approximately April 2020.”
The HOPE Not Hate campaign, a website dedicated to counteracting the “politics of hate,” describes the Order as a group that promotes “a supernatural and hateful system of thought that condemns liberal, Judeo-Christian society.”
The private used an encrypted application to send messages to O9A and another related group called “RapeWaffen Division,” the investigators revealed, detailing “sensitive information” regarding his unit’s upcoming deployment.
In May of this year, he also sent similar information to a “purported” member of Al-Qaeda. He conveyed the number of soldiers traveling, the unit’s expected facility location and information about its surveillance and defensive capabilities, court records show.
Melzer also acknowledged that he was willing to die in order to carry out the “jihadi attack.”
According the complaint, he wrote, “Who gives a [expletive] [. . .] it would be another war . . . I would’ve died successfully . . . cause [] another 10 year war in the Middle East would definitely leave a mark.”
Secret Identities in the Sinister Tradition
Political Esotericism and the Convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism, and National Socialism in the Order of Nine Angles
O9A is the most extreme satanist group in the world, so much so that some of the material put out by the group is so disturbing it is held in a secure section at the British Library and can only be accessed under supervision. It encourages followers to engage in forbidden and illegal acts of extreme violence.
The founder of the movement, David Myatt, has been explicit in his nihilistic aims, saying that he has tried to “create some things which can disrupt our societies and which can lead to the creation of strong, really dangerous, ruthless individuals”
In his terrorist handbook, A Practical Guide to The Strategy and Tactics of Revolution, he states clearly that “the whole fabric of this decadent materialistic society must be broken down and destroyed by whatever means are necessary and practical, and however ruthless we have to be, for such ruthlessness is now necessary to save our people and our land…”
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/03/nazi-satanist-cult-fuelling-far-right-terrorist-groups-overlooked-uk-authorities-order-nine-angles