Right Wing Terrorism Watch - Feds do searches against white supremacists around the country

One of two brothers indicted this week in connection with the bombing of a Scottsdale, Ariz., diversity office was a former Klansman and leading skinhead recruiter with a predilection for explosives.

As part of a sweeping undercover investigation that led to the indictment, federal agents also raided the Indiana home of longtime white separatist Tom Metzger on Thursday, removing computers and other items, but not arresting him.

In another related move, a man described as a white supremacist with expertise in weapons and the making of napalm was arrested on his rural property in Missouri and charged with being a felon in possession of firearms.

Dennis Mahon, 58, and his twin brother, Daniel, were arrested Thursday following the search of a home in Davis Junction, Ill. A federal grand jury indictment in Arizona charges them with conspiring to damage and destroy buildings and property. “The object of the conspiracy was to promote racial discord on behalf of the ‘White Aryan Resistance,’” the indictment states. WAR is a white supremacist organization founded by Metzger more than a quarter century ago.

The same day the Mahons were being arrested, ATF agents served a search warrant on Metzger’s home in Warsaw, Ind. On his 24-hour hotline, Metzger said that three computers and an address book were among the items taken. Noting that he has been called before grand juries and jailed in the past, Metzger – sounding nonchalant, almost jovial — called the raid “a little speed bump in the road.” He acknowledged knowing the Mahons since the early 1980s. “They’re friends of mine,” he said. “I’m sure the Mahon brothers are smarter than to do something like that.”

Robert Joos, 56, the man arrested in Missouri, came to investigators’ attention when Dennis Mahon’s telephone records showed that the first call Mahon made the morning the package bomb was left in Scottsdale was to a cell phone in Joos’ name.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/06/26/feds-indict-white-supremacists-in-arizona-bombing/#more-3221

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“Terrorism works. We did a lot of terrorism in Tulsa in the 1980s. We put heads in the road, and people paid attention. You have to give it to the Iraqis, they’re putting us to shame right now."
- Dennis Mahon