Two Americans have been indicted on charges of conspiring to commit various terrorist acts as part of an international terrorist organization seeking to spread white supremacist ideology overseas.
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, and Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, on 15 charges.
These include one count of conspiracy, four counts of soliciting a hate crime, three counts of soliciting the murder of a federal officer, three counts of leaking personal information of a federal officer, one count of communicating threatening messages, two counts of distributing bomb-making instructions, and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
Federal prosecutors allege Allison and Humber are leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, an international terrorist organization that operates on Telegram, a digital messaging platform that is hugely popular in Eastern Europe and right-wing political circles in the United States.
The group promotes “white supremacist accelerationism,” an ideology that asserts the superiority of the white race, that society is irreparably corrupt and cannot be saved through political participation, and that violence and terrorism are necessary to spark a race war, destroy government institutions and replace them with a white ethnostate.
Prosecutors allege that Humber and Allison ran Terrorgram channels and group chats, soliciting users to carry out attacks to further the group’s larger goals of accelerationism and white supremacy.
Specific attacks allegedly linked to the Terrorgram Collective include a mass shooting in Slovakia in which three people were shot, two of them fatally, outside an LGBT bar; Failed attack on energy facility In New Jersey Mass stabbing incident Five people were killed outside a mosque in Turkey by a gunman who live-streamed the attack.
Humber and Allison are also accused of drawing up lists of “high-value targets” for assassination.
The list included US federal, state and local officials, as well as leaders of private companies and non-governmental organizations, many of whom were targeted because of their race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or gender identity.
If convicted on all charges, Humber and Allison each face a maximum sentence of 220 years in prison.
“Today’s arrests serve as a warning that you can’t hide from committing hate-motivated crimes in the darkest corners of the internet, and you can’t protect yourself from soliciting terrorist attacks from behind a screen,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The Department of Justice will find you and hold you accountable.”
Source: Metro Weekly – www.metroweekly.com
