A US Army soldier stationed overseas has been charged with passing along information about his unit's planned deployment overseas, intending it to get extremist groups to attack it.
A month later, the FBI said, he began posting information about his Army unit, stationed in Italy, and its planned redeployment to a U.S. military base in Turkey, in order to inspire a jihadist attack on the unit.
Federal officials said the Army stopped the plot in late May, and FBI agents arrested Melzer on June 10. Investigators said he confessed."Melzer provided this information to the users of the messaging application to facilitate a mass casualty attack on the unit," according to a charging document unsealed Monday.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Order of Nine Angles as"an enigmatic Satanic occult group." Its most extreme adherents"promote human sacrifice, Nazism and Fascism and Aryan myths, and have been reported to praise Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden."in the U.K.
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