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The "real" terrorist enemy.

The New American

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On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, ABC News reported that a secret FBI report "identifies 22 domestic terror organizations as the current subjects of 338 active FBI field investigations." "The Aryan Nations, and other white supremacist groups, are cited in the report for hate crimes, fire bombings, threats via mail, as well as robberies and murders," noted ABC. "The National Alliance, one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the world, is subject to 51 investigations alone."

Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, insists that neo-Nazis and other "right-wing extremists" (a very elastic category) are "ticking time bombs.... They're in their bedroom accessing bomb-making information on the Net, and accessing hateful rhetoric which empowers them.... The Interact is where law enforcement should be looking, because that is where the next Timothy McVeigh probably is right now."

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