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Associated Press
Larry Neumeister
New York (AP) — Private U.S. forces in Kentucky convicted on Friday for planning to kill members of the unit. Admitted. According to officials, he planned to do so in 2020 on behalf of a group that encouraged extreme violence to bring the end of Western civilization.
Ethan Ferran Melzer, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky, has pleaed a plea in federal court in Manhattan. Sentences could face up to 45 years' imprisonment on January 6, after murdering U.S. military members, assisting terrorists, and pleading guilty to attempting to illegally transmit defense information.
Federal officials said in court documents that Melzer was a radical violent group already known as the Nine Angle Order (09A) before joining the Army in December 2018. He said he was a member of. The criminal accusation group was founded in the United Kingdom and is now an anarchist group active around the world, including the United States.
Authorities said he sought to gain spontaneity for 09A through street violence. Level drug dealer after shooting a marijuana dealer in his arm in January 2017 near a Louisville apartment.
In a defense court filing, a lawyer denied Melzer belonging to the group, and after his arrest, his online claim to group membership was "strong and he said. It's a fake designed to impress those who communicate, "he said. Online. According to the defense's filing, Melzer had some curiosity about 09A, but believed it was "strange" and "quite cult", and his belief was his own "opposite". rice field.
On Friday's release, authorities replaced the army on behalf of groups that supported neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and Satanist beliefs and encouraged their members to infiltrate. He said he had joined and infiltrated the class. The army can be trained, violent, identify like-minded individuals, and attempt to destroy the army from within.
Participated in 09A before 2017, but after being sent to Italy as a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat in October 2019, several encrypted online forums, including Islamic State. The team, Release said, began consuming advertisements from radical groups.
In early May 2020, his actions leading to prosecution after the Army told him to be relocated to troops deployed abroad to protect isolated and sensitive military installations. Said it happened partially.
After several weeks of training, including classified briefings that learned the importance and sensitivity of new missions, Melzer learned his information when proposing and planning. Was immediately started to be handed over to the members of 09A. A deadly attack on his fellow military personnel, officials said.
They plan to have Melzer join the conspirators to carry out a "Jihadi Attack" that triggers a "Massive Casualty" event, which makes the unit's "Fire Team" "essential". I will make it inconvenient. "
According to court documents, Melzer told his conspirators in his correspondence that he was willing to die for the goals of a terrorist, and he "died successfully." Would be. "