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Titolo: A Few Bad Men

 A Few Bad Men
Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces,
extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved
military.
by David Holthouse
  July 7, 2006 -- Before the U.S. military made Matt Buschbacher a Navy
SEAL, he made himself a soldier of the Fourth Reich.
Before Forrest Fogarty attended Military Police counter-insurgency
training school, he attended Nazi skinhead festivals as lead singer for
the hate rock band Attack.
And before Army engineer Jon Fain joined the invasion of Iraq to fight
the War on Terror, the neo-Nazi National Alliance member fantasized
about fighting a war on Jews.
"Ever since my youth -- when I watched WWII footage and saw how
well-disciplined and sharply dressed the German forces were -- I have
wanted to be a soldier," Fain said in a Winter 2004 interview with the
National Alliance magazine Resistance. "Joining the American military
was as close as I could get."
Ten years after Pentagon leaders toughened policies on extremist
activities by active duty personnel -- a move that came in the wake of
the Oklahoma City bombing by decorated Gulf War combat veteran Timothy
McVeigh and the murder of a black couple by members of a skinhead gang
in the elite 82nd Airborne Division -- large numbers of neo-Nazis and
skinhead extremists continue to infiltrate the ranks of the world's
best-trained, best-equipped fighting force. Military recruiters and
base commanders, under intense pressure from the war in Iraq to fill
the ranks, often look the other way.
Neo-Nazis "stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up
across the branches once they're inside, and they are hard-core,"
Department of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield told the
Intelligence Report. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," he
added. "That's a problem."
The armed forces are supposed to be a model of racial equality.
American soldiers are supposed to be defenders of democracy. Neo-Nazis
represent the opposite of these ideals. They dream of race war and
revolution, and their motivations for enlisting are often quite
different than serving their country.
"Join only for the training, and to better defend yourself, our people,
and our culture," Fain said. "We must have people to open doors from
the inside when the time comes."
Soldier Shortage
In 1996, following a decade-long rash of cases where extremists in the
military were caught diverting huge arsenals of stolen firearms and
explosives to neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations, conducting
guerilla training for paramilitary racist militias, and murdering
non-white civilians (see timeline), the Pentagon finally launched a
massive investigation and crackdown. One general ordered all 19,000
soldiers at Fort Lewis, Wash., strip-searched for extremist tattoos.
But that was peacetime. Now, with the country at war in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and the military under increasingly intense pressure to
maintain enlistment numbers, weeding out extremists is less of a
priority. "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white
supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them
from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists
or gang members," said Department of Defense investigator Barfield.
"Last year, for the first time, they didn't make their recruiting
goals. They don't want to start making a big deal again about neo-Nazis
in the military, because then parents who are already worried about
their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more
reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they'll be exposed to
gangs and white supremacists."
Barfield, who is based at Fort Lewis, said he has identified and
submitted evidence on 320 extremists there in the past year. "Only two
have been discharged," he said. Barfield and other Department of
Defense investigators said they recently uncovered an online network of
57 neo-Nazis who are active duty Army and Marines personnel spread
across five military installations in five states -- Fort Lewis; Fort
Bragg, N.C.; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Stewart, Ga.; and Camp Pendleton,
Calif. "They're communicating with each other about weapons, about
recruiting, about keeping their identities secret, about organizing
within the military," Barfield said. "Several of these individuals have
since been deployed to combat missions in Iraq."
Every year, the Army's Criminal Investigation Division conducts a
threat assessment of extremist and gang activity among army personnel.
"Every year, they come back with 'minimal activity,' which is
inaccurate," said Barfield. "It's not epidemic, but there's plenty of
evidence we're talking numbers well into the thousands, just in the
Army."
Last July, the white supremacist website Stormfront hosted a discussion
on "Joining the Military."
"There are others among you in the forces," wrote one neo-Nazi in the
Army. "You are never alone."
Nazi SEAL
Not all military commanders fail to give known extremists the boot.
"The response differs from command group to command group," Barfield
said. "Most put up a front and say, 'Oh, this guy's in big trouble,'
but actually do nothing unless he commits a felony. But some kick their
ass out right away."
Barfield noted that commanders are far more likely to take immediate
action if the soldier is stateside in a non-combat role, rather than
fighting overseas. In one recent instance, Robert Salyer, a lieutenant
in the Navy and military lawyer with the Judge Advocate General Corps,
was dishonorably discharged and barred from military law practice when
it came to light that he was a member of the white supremacist
neo-Confederate group League of the South. And in late June, Airman
First Class Andrew Dornan, who was assigned to the firing party in the
U.S. Air Force Honor Guard, was sentenced to nine months confinement
and dishonorably discharged after he posted messages glorifying Adolf
Hitler on his personal webpage and threatened to detonate a bomb on a
military base.
But the military took no such action against former Navy SEAL Matt
Buschbacher, who continued to fight in Iraq after the Southern Poverty
Law Center had alerted officials to his active support of neo-Nazi
groups.
Buschbacher told the Intelligence Report he joined the neo-Nazi
movement "for the same reason everyone joins: I was angry and looking
for some answers. I wanted to belong to something that made me feel
good about myself."
In 1998, when Buschbacher was still a teenager living in Terrace Park,
Ohio, a wealthy, almost exclusively white suburb of Cincinnati, he was
ordained as a reverend in the World Church of the Creator, a violent
neo-Nazi organization. He rose fast. In 1999, he was the head of the
hate group's Cincinnati chapter when Chicago member Benjamin Smith went
on a three-day, two-state shooting spree that targeted Jews, Asians and
blacks. Smith killed two people and wounded nine before committing
suicide as police closed in.
Afterward, Buschbacher praised Smith as "a dedicated activist for our
racial cause" in The Cincinnati Inquirer. "We have pride in our race,
heritage, and culture, and we will do anything to prevent it from being
destroyed," he said. "White man is the creator, the creator of
civilizations."
In May 2000, Buschbacher attended Nordic Fest, an annual skinhead
festival sponsored by the Imperial Klans of America in Kentucky, where
he posed in front of a flaming swastika, seig heiling. He joined the
Navy shortly afterward. Again, Buschbacher advanced quickly. In October
2001, he completed 26 weeks of SEAL training at the Naval Special
Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif.
In August 2002, while an active duty SEAL but not yet stationed in
Baghdad, Buschbacher attended the National Alliance's invitation-only
"leadership conference" at the neo-Nazi group's West Virginia compound.
The conference was held just weeks after the death of National Alliance
founder William Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries, the fantasy novel
about revolution and race war that inspired Oklahoma City bomber
Timothy McVeigh. Pierce also wrote the seminal pamphlet, "What is the
National Alliance?" It was in that tract that Pierce explained that a
National Alliance member in the military "[u]ses his daily interactions
with career personnel to select exceptional individuals who are
receptive, and he then gives them the opportunity to serve their race
while carrying out their military functions."
'Heroes Among Us'
Today, Matt Buschbacher denies recruiting Navy personnel into the
Alliance. What's clear is that for years after becoming a SEAL, he
violated military regulations without repercussions by staying active
in the neo-Nazi movement.
Using the online pseudonym "Mattiasb88" [88 is neo-Nazi code for "Heil
Hitler"] to hide his identity, Buschbacher designed and distributed
National Alliance fliers, white power screen savers, and a photo
montage of Pierce on the Internet via his website, 
racialpride.com
,
which displayed a logo of a burning swastika and this mission
statement: "The purpose of this website is to provide white patriots
with a large database of information for recruiting and
self-improvement." Buschbacher also posted messages to the white
supremacist website Stormfront and the website of Resistance Records, a
hate rock music company owned by the National Alliance. In the fall of
2003, the National Alliance magazine Resistance even published a
collage of "Scene Shots" that included a small photo of Buschbacher
wearing a Turner Diaries T-shirt and giving a Nazi salute.
Buschbacher hasn't been the only neo-Nazi to fight in Iraq. Forrest
Mackley Fogarty, a member of the Tampa, Fla., unit of the National
Alliance, was deployed for 18 months during Operation Iraqi Freedom
with his Army National Guard unit. "There are some dirty Arabs enjoying
their 70 virgins because of my actions and that of my fire team,"
Fogarty boasted in the Winter 2005 issue of Resistance. (Fogarty was
identified in the article only as "Forrest of Attack.")
Jon Fain, a neo-Nazi who currently lives on the National Alliance
compound, was part of the original Iraq invasion force in 2003, as a
U.S. Army engineer. Shawn Stuart, the Montana state leader of the
National Socialist Movement, another neo-Nazi group, served two combat
tours in Iraq as a U.S. Marine before he was discharged in 2005.
Stuart, who is running for the state House of Representatives in
Montana, told the Missoula News that he joined the NSM in 2004, while
he was still a Marine, because he "came to believe the United States is
fighting the war on Israel's behalf."
None of these men, it appears, were ever disciplined for neo-Nazi
activities. All were honorably discharged.
James Douglas Ross Jr. was not so fortunate. Ross, a military
intelligence officer stationed at Fort Bragg, was caught shipping
disassembled AK-47s to the United States from Iraq in 2004, officials
said. When investigators searched his off base housing, they found a
weapons arsenal, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and hate group
materials. Ross was forced to return from Iraq and given a bad conduct
discharge. "But they let him keep the weapons [he kept in his house],"
said Department of Defense investigator Barfield, adding that Ross has
since relocated to Washington, where he's a leader of the Eastern
Washington Skins, a neo-Nazi gang. "He kept his military connections,
and he's still trying to recruit soldiers, so we're still dealing with
him."
For his part, despite his sometimes brazen activities, Matt Buschbacher
tried hard to avoid exposure as a neo-Nazi in the military. But his
identity became clear after he posted a photo of himself in a
"Mattiasb88" Yahoo profile in 2004, and then advertised his neo-Nazi
E-mail address in a July 2004 posting to a currency trading forum. "I
am in the military and currently in Iraq," he wrote there. "If anyone
would like to purchase some Iraqi dinars I have access to as much as
you would like." That September, Buschbacher was profiled in his
hometown Terrace Park community newspaper, Village Views. The article,
"Heroes Among Us," reported he was fighting terrorism with a SEAL unit
based in downtown Baghdad.
Two years later, Matt Buschbacher is back from Iraq -- also with an
honorable discharge, despite the fact that the Southern Poverty Law
Center informed the military of his background while he was still on
active duty. He lives in Denver, Colo., and teaches classes on how to
pick up women. "I have no connection with any neo-Nazi anything any
more," Buschbacher told the Intelligence Report. Photographed holding a
red rose, he was recently splashed across the cover of a weekly
newsmagazine in Denver promoting his new book, Date the Women of Your
Dreams. The cover story made no mention of his neo-Nazi past.
Training for Race War
According to a 1998 study commissioned by the Department of Defense,
"Young civilian extremists are encouraged by adult leaders to enlist in
the military to gain access to weapons, training, and other military
personnel."
The reasons are obvious: Soldiers are trained to be proficient with
weapons, combat tactics, and explosives, to train others in their use,
and to operate in a highly disciplined culture that is focused on the
organized violence of war. This is why military extremists present an
elevated threat to public safety, and why extremists groups both
recruit active duty personnel -- especially those with access to
classified information or sophisticated weaponry -- and influence their
members to join the armed forces.
"The threats posed by extremism to the military are simultaneously
blatant and subtle," the Defense Department study said. "On the one
hand, high-profile terrorist acts and hate crimes committed by active
and former military personnel can have seriously detrimental effects on
the civil-military relationship as well as on the morale and security
of military personnel. On the other hand, even the non-violent
activities of military personnel with extremist tendencies (e.g.,
possessing literature and/or artifacts from the extremist 'movement';
dabbling in extremism through computerized telecommunications
activities; proselytizing extremist ideologies, etc.) can have
deleterious consequences for the good order, discipline, readiness, and
cohesion of military units."
Special Forces soldiers who double as extremist operatives present a
special danger, since they have commando skills gained at huge taxpayer
expense -- often including urban warfare, long-range reconnaissance,
and combat demolitions.
"Hate groups send their guys into the U.S. military because the U.S.
military has the best weapons and training," said T.J. Leyden, a former
racist skinhead and Marine who recruited inside the Marine Corps for
the Hammerskins, a nationwide skinhead gang. He later renounced the
neo-Nazi movement and now conducts anti-extremism training seminars on
military bases.
"Right now, any white supremacist in Iraq is getting live fire,
guerilla warfare experience," Leyden said. "But any white supremacist
in Iraq who's a Green Beret or a Navy SEAL or Marine Recon, he's doing
covert stuff that's far above and beyond convoy protection and
roadblocks. And if he comes back and decides at some point down the
road that it's race war time, all that training and combat experience
he's received could easily turn around and bite this country in the
ass."
Department of Defense investigator Barfield confirmed that threat
assessment. "Today's white supremacists in the military become
tomorrow's domestic terrorists once they're out," he said. "There needs
to be a tighter focus on intercepting the next Timothy McVeigh before
he becomes the next Timothy McVeigh."
'White Soldier's Burden'
In April 1995, the same month Timothy McVeigh detonated a 7,000-pound
truck bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168
people, the National Alliance erected a billboard on the main road
leading into Fort Bragg, an Army base in Fayetteville, N.C. The
billboard's message read, "Enough! Let's Start Taking Back America,"
and listed the neo-Nazi group's toll-free number.
The billboard was the work of Robert Hunt, a National Alliance
recruiter and active duty member of the Army's elite 82nd Airborne
Division, which is based at Fort Bragg. By late 1995, a large neo-Nazi
skinhead gang had formed within the 82nd Airborne. Members saluted a
Nazi flag in their barracks, distributed National Alliance literature
on base, and held drunken barracks parties where they blasted "Third
Reich," a rockabilly white power anthem by the band Rahowa (short for
"Racial Holy War") with lyrics about killing blacks and Jews.
In December 1995, two members of the 82nd Airborne skinhead gang gunned
down a black couple in a random, racially motivated double murder that
shocked the nation and sparked a major investigation of extremism in
the military as well as congressional hearings. The killers were
eventually sentenced to life in prison, and 19 other members of the
82nd Airborne were dishonorably discharged for neo-Nazi gang
activities.
"The fallout from the skinhead killings was immediate," racist skinhead
Steve Smith recalled in his 2005 essay, "The White Soldier's Burden."
Smith was in the Army from 1991 to 1996 and was stationed at Fort Bragg
at the time of the murders. "White soldiers at Fort Bragg were
inspected to see if they had any 'racist' tattoos. The Army also held
mandatory classes on 'extremist' organizations."
Before the Fort Bragg slayings, military regulations on extremist
activity by active duty soldiers were ambiguous. There were no specific
regulations on extremism at all until 1986, when it came to light that
active duty soldiers were providing guerilla training and stolen
military weapons to a paramilitary Ku Klux Klan faction led by a former
Green Beret. The Southern Poverty Law Center then urged Secretary of
Defense Casper Weinberger to "prohibit active-duty members of the armed
services from holding membership in groups like the Klan or from taking
part in their activities." Weinberger responded by issuing this
directive: "Military personnel must reject participation in white
supremacy, neo-Nazi and other such groups which espouse or attempt to
create overt discrimination. Active participation, including public
demonstrations, recruiting and training members, and organizing or
leading such organizations is utterly incompatible with military
service."
Though sternly worded, many commanders interpreted that order to mean
that while active participation in extremist groups was prohibited,
so-called "passive support," such as distributing propaganda, listening
to hate rock, displaying flags or symbols, and "mere membership," were
still allowed. After the Fort Bragg slayings, however, the Department
of Defense toughened military policy somewhat to read, "Engaging in
activities in relation to [extremist] organizations, or in furtherance
of the objectives of such organizations that are viewed by command to
be detrimental to the good order of the unit is incompatible with
Military Service, and is, therefore, prohibited."
Then-Defense Secretary William Perry used even stronger language to
describe the intent of the updated regulation. "Department of Defense
policy leaves no room for racist and extremist activities in the
military," Perry stated. "We must -- and we shall -- make every effort
to erase bigotry, racism, and extremism from the military. Extremist
activity compromises fairness, good order, and discipline. The armed
forces, which defend the nation and its values, must exemplify those
values beyond question."
Lowering Standards
Neo-Nazis have no respect for the values of a free democracy or the
shining example of equal opportunity its military is meant to be. When
Jon Fain, the Army engineer, was interviewed in 2004 for a Resistance
article titled, "On the Front Lines for the Jews," he advised neo-Nazis
considering a military career to "[n]ever allow yourself to be
brainwashed into the 'everybody's green' lie." In the Stormfront
discussion on joining the military, neo-Nazi "Ulfur Engil" wrote that
he was stationed with the Army in Europe and offered this guidance:
"Nothing will change what you are. If you join, you are still the same
enlightened white man (or woman) you always have been."
Hundreds of neo-Nazis online identify themselves as active duty
soldiers. "When you are in, after you finish basic training, your
discretion is very important," Ulfur Engil wrote in a recent Internet
posting. "If you are someone who wears boots and braces keep a second
pair that's neutral looking (black). Remove any obvious pins from your
jacket (runes by themselves are okay, though. They don't take issue
with them, providing there is no obvious [racist] arrangement. The USO
in Keflavik, Iceland, actually sold runes!) Do NOT use any Internet
connection offered by the base or do ANYTHING on a military server.
NOTHING. Get an Internet connection that is private and off-base,
invest in EvidenceEliminator, and set up an email account with Hushmail
and/or Ziplip."
Extremists in the military are tricky to unmask. "They're a lot smarter
about it than street gang members," said Barfield. "They don't brag and
boast like gang bangers." The best way to reduce the number of
extremists in the armed forces is to prevent them from entering the
military in the first place. "But now we're lowering our recruiting
standards. We're accepting lesser quality soldiers," Barfield said. In
a move to boost enlistment, the military is allowing more and more
recruits with criminal records to sign up. A recent Chicago Sun-Times
article revealed the percentage of recruits granted "moral waivers" for
past misdemeanors had more than doubled since 2001. The military also
revised its rules on inductee tattoos earlier this year to allow all
tattoos except those on the front of the face. Both changes in the
rules made it easier for extremists to join. And while military
regulations prohibit (PDF) all gang-related or white supremacist
tattoos, many recruiters are ignoring such tattoos, or even literally
covering them up. "I had one case where a recruiter and his wife took a
guy to their house and covered up his tattoos with make-up so he could
pass his [physical examination]," Barfield said.
Military regulations also call for any superior officer who spots a
soldier with a neo-Nazi or white supremacist tattoo to refer the
soldier to a commander, who then is supposed to demand the soldier have
the tattoo removed. If the soldier refuses, he's supposed to be kicked
out.
"But there's a loophole," Barfield said. "If they never refer them,
they can't refuse, so they just never refer them, and they stay in."
"If you have any kind of tattoo prior to going in, they will require
you to write out a statement as to what it is, and what it means to
you," advised a neo-Nazi in the Stormfront military forum. "If it's
something obvious like a swazi [swastika], then they will probably say,
'No go.' But, something more obscure, like a Schwarze Sonne [a "black
sun," another Nazi symbol] or a Celtic cross would probably be okay, so
long as no phraseology accompanies it."
"The average Joe recruiter can spot the most obvious tattoos," said
Leyden, who trains the military in identifying hate group members. "But
the vast majority of them don't know what 'White Power' in German looks
like, they don't know what 88 in Roman numerals means, and now, they
may not even care, because they're under this extreme pressure to fill
the void, and who are they filling the void with? Therein lies the
danger."
'Switchblades and Smeared Blood'
The large tattoo on the right arm of Air Force airman Robert Lee West
depicts a menacing wizard with a scythe. His recruiter probably saw no
problem there, but the photo of himself West has up on his
EveryonesSpace web page should wave a red flag. In it, West, with his
head shaved, is standing in front of a swastika and Iron Eagle banner,
holding twin AR-15 assault rifles. West, 23, who's stationed at Warner
Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, lists his general interests as
"switchblades and smeared blood."
In his "About Me" section, he writes: "I train most days for
marksmanship, combat, demolition, politics, economics, religion,
military tactics, oratory, and propaganda. I will give my life for a
cause greater than my own. My mind and spirit shall ensure life for my
people, and death for yours. I shall fight until I have achieved
victory. Just remember when you speak to me that I don't play by ZOG
[Zionist Occupation Government] rules and I will not hesitate to sever
your subclavian artery."
Special Agent Will Manuel of Air Force's Office of Special
Investigations at Warner Robins said he's "well aware" of West's
neo-Nazi identity. "We've seen all his pictures, we've read his
website, and we know what's he doing." Yet despite the toughened policy
declared by the Pentagon a decade ago, Manuel says, "We're not going to
go after him just based on what he says he believes, or on him making a
lot of claims. There has to be an overt act first. He has to actually
organize or recruit or commit a crime. But even his pictures and
writings raise concerns, obviously, because we know that where you have
one [neo-Nazi], there's usually another, and what he claims to
represent totally goes against the core values of the military."
Ten years after the military crackdown on extremism, it's clear that
there are still a great many Robert Lee Wests in the U.S. armed forces.
And that should worry all Americans. In 1996, the Ft. Bragg murders
sparked Congressional hearings on extremism in the military. Then-Air
Force Secretary Sheila E. Windall said in her testimony, "We have an
absolute obligation, and the American people have an absolute right to
expect, that military members will use their expertise and the lethal
tools of their trade to protect them and never to harm them."
But some in the military appear to have lost sight of that obligation
in the fog of war. "The regulations could use some fine tuning, but
they're already on the books," Barfield said. "They're just not being
enforced. My fear is that it's going to take another Fort Bragg before
that changes."
Anthony Griggs, Joseph Roy Sr., and Laurie Wood contributed to this
report.

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http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/14/120.html
tra cui l'articolo del NYT :
Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts
By JOHN KIFNER
A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist
hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have
allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to
infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist and right-wing
militia groups, estimated that the numbers could run into the
thousands, citing interviews with Defense Department investigators and
reports and postings on racist Web sites and magazines.
"We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the group quoted a
Defense Department investigator as saying in a report to be posted
today on its Web site, 
www.splcenter.org
. "That's a problem."
A Defense Department spokeswoman said officials there could not comment
on the report because they had not yet seen it.
The center called on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to appoint a
task force to study the problem, declare a new zero tolerance policy
and strictly enforce it.
The report said that neo-Nazi groups like the National Alliance, whose
founder, William Pierce, wrote "The Turner Diaries," the novel that was
the inspiration and blueprint for Timothy J. McVeigh's bombing of the
Oklahoma City federal building, sought to enroll followers in the Army
to get training for a race war.
The groups are being abetted, the report said, by pressure on
recruiters, particularly for the Army, to meet quotas that are more
difficult to reach because of the growing unpopularity of the war in
Iraq.
The report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator,
saying, "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white
supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them
from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists
or gang members."
Mr. Barfield said Army recruiters struggled last year to meet goals.
"They don't want to make a big deal again about neo-Nazis in the
military," he said, "because then parents who are already worried about
their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more
reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they'll be exposed to
gangs and white supremacists."
The 1996 crackdown on extremists came after revelations that Mr.
McVeigh had espoused far-right ideas when he was in the Army and
recruited two fellow soldiers to aid his bomb plot. Those revelations
were followed by a furor that developed when three white paratroopers
were convicted of the random slaying of a black couple in order to win
tattoos and 19 others were discharged for participating in neo-Nazi
activities.
The defense secretary at the time, William Perry, said the rules were
meant to leave no room for racist and extremist activities within the
military. But the report said Mr. Barfield, who is based at Fort Lewis,
Wash., had said that he had provided evidence on 320 extremists there
in the past year, but that only two had been discharged. He also said
there was an online network of neo-Nazis.
"They're communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting,
about keeping their identities secret, about organizing within the
military," he said. "Several of these individuals have since been
deployed to combat missions in Iraq."
The report cited accounts by neo-Nazis of their infiltration of the
military, including a discussion on the white supremacist Web site
Stormfront. "There are others among you in the forces," one participant
wrote. "You are never alone."
An article in the National Alliance magazine Resistance urged skinheads
to join the Army and insist on being assigned to light infantry units.
The Southern Poverty Law Center identified the author as Steven Barry,
who it said was a former Special Forces officer who was the alliance's
"military unit coordinator."
"Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war
and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's
war," he wrote. "It will be house-to-house,
neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the
alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted
down and 'cleansed.' "
He concluded: "As a professional soldier, my goal is to fill the ranks
of the United States Army with skinheads. As street brawlers, you will
be useless in the coming race war. As trained infantrymen, you will
join the ranks of the Aryan warrior brotherhood."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07recruit.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin