White supremacist terror manual found in connection to attacks on police

Two men charged with attempting to kill police officers in Hemet, Calif., used what prosecutors are calling a white power “guerrilla warfare manual” to guide a nine-month campaign of terror and violence against the police department, its buildings and vehicles.

The anonymously written “White Resistance Manual” was posted on the website WhiteHonor.org and contained do-it-yourself guides that Nicholas John Smit and Steven Hansen used to build such guerrilla-styled weapons as zip guns and “Panji boards” – spiked boards rigged with trip wires, according to Daniel DeLimon, a prosecutor with the district attorney in Riverside, Calif. “It’s basically a guerrilla warfare manual instructing people on different types of weapons, on creating weapons, on police investigations, basically how to conduct covert urban operations,” DeLimon told HateWatch in a telephone interview.

The manual is not the first to provide extremists with the know-how to turn militant. Similar antigovernment paramilitary manuals were circulated among private militia groups in the 1990s, and directions to build pipe bombs or create the neurotoxin ricin periodically appear on extremist newsgroups. Still, this manual’s comprehensive approach prompted alarm in an area of southern California that DeLimon described as a “magnet” for white supremacist ideologues. “We see all different types of propaganda,” he said. “But I’ve never actually seen this manual.”

WhiteHonor.org has since been pulled offline, investigators say, and the manual appears to no longer be readily available on the Internet. Its existence came to light when The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., reported details of police search warrants that were unsealed in response to a request from the newspaper.

Former roommates Smit, 40, and Hansen, 37, each face felony charges that include attempted murder of a police officer for trying to fire a World War II-era training rocket at the Hemet police station, and conspiracy to kill a detective. The men are suspected in six other attempted attacks and fires that detectives believe were carried out to prevent an officer who arrested Smit on marijuana charges from testifying against him, the Press-Enterprise reported.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/01/25/hemet-attacks/

Just imagine if a pair of Muslims did this.

They dissed the study that warned about them.

Oh, no, this must have been a left-wing, white-supremist, skin-head manual. ;-)

...on-air commentaries, you know.

So the left had better shut the hell up, you know!?

And I don't know many RWers advocating violence against cops.

Maybe white supremacists are a group unto themselves.

I remember when I posted a story about the Hutaree organization's plans and how one of them involved killing a cop and then planting bombs at the funeral to detonate them. Seemed that most of DU was appalled.

G. Gordon Liddy told listeners on a radio show to be sure not to shoot law enforcement... in the chest. He said to shoot them in the head because of their armor. I'm pretty sure he's not a lefty.

That's not to excuse actual misdeeds.

I'm barely familiar with Beck or Limbaugh except for what others have to say. Who is this Liddy person?

I can't be the only one with family in law enforcement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41235743/

so many police deaths in such a short period of time.

Decriminalizing marijuana might deliver the white supremacist vote.

I would think white supremacist would want their meth labs legalized.

no race, class, region or worldview has a lock on using cannabis


The silver lining may be that law enforcement begin to pay attention to their true enemies.

My heart goes out to the families of those recently lost; I don't want to see more of it.

The priority needs to be changed out there in the Real World, but you have a lot of Old School types on the streets who have difficulty adapting their idea of the "enemy."

This one?