Stabbing knife, check. Scary mask, check. Nazi-like insignia, check. Occult manual, check... An actual photo the DoJ says U.S. Army Pvt. Ethan Melzer uploaded somewhere in the expectation his superiors and military intelligence would never notice...
A U.S. soldier assigned to an installation in Europe has been charged with trying to plan a deadly ambush on members of his own unit during an upcoming deployment with the help of an "occult-based neo-Nazi" group known as the "Order of the Nine Angles," according to an
indictment unsealed Monday.
Pvt. Ethan P. Melzer, 22,
confessed to plotting what he intended to be a mass casualty attack during an interview with U.S. agents on May 30, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Melzer was arrested on June 10 by the FBI. During the interview, Melzer called himself a traitor against the United States and admitted that he intended to cause as many deaths among his fellow service members as possible, according to the indictment.
Melzer enlisted as an infantryman through the Army's delayed entry program in December 2018 and started his active duty service in June 2019, said Army spokesman Lt. Col. Emanuel Ortizcruz.
Melzer was stationed in Vicenza, Italy, and was slotted to deploy to Turkey. The staff judge advocate from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, also based in Vicenza, helped investigate Melzer, and a picture included in his now unsealed criminal complaint indicates he was a paratrooper in the same brigade.
Comment: A White Supremacist plot... using jihadi Muzzies?
That makes no sense, on the face of it.
There is indeed (or there was at least) a movement/group called 'Order of Nine Angles', but it's a British group from the 1960s, probably an offshoot of Aleister Crowley's Order of the Golden Dawn, and appears to be defunct today. There's even a rather large
Wikipedia entry on it.
The army undoubtedly attracts low-intelligence people, but you're borderline retarded if, in this day and age, you're speaking 'anonymously' to what you've been duped into believing are mysterious 'wizards' and 'world-changers', divulging sensitive military intel to them in the apparent expectation that your communications won't be noticed.
This sounds like a sting operation. Which would mean the Private was set up to
believe he was talking to 'Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Islamic Jihadis' plotting the 'overthrow of the system', and 'race war'.
Speaking of which, the media angle on this is, of course, emphasizing 'white supremacist terrorists in our midst'...
Comment: The suspected attacker, Khairi Saadallah, is a Libyan asylum seeker who was known to security services prior to the attack and deemed to be "low risk."
Update (6/24): The UK's security minister has gone on the defensive after the reports of MI5 being aware of the killer, claiming that 25 terrorist plots have been foiled in the last three years by UK security services. That's after Home Secretary Priti Patel said that the attack was the actions of a "lone individual." Patel went on to warn Parliament of the continued threat of more "lone wolf" attacks in the UK.
Neighbors of the killer have described the killer's behavior as erratic and sometimes violent, with potential mental health issues as well. One neighbor described an incident a year ago where Saadallah smashed and threw his TV off his balcony.