Right-Wing Terrorism on the Rise
There is reference about Sweden in this article:
The shooting on 11 August of small children and their teachers at the North Valley Jewish Community Center, Granada Hills, California is only the latest in a spate of racist and anti-Semitic terrorist attacks by right-wing radicals—not only in the United States, but also in Russia and in Europe.
It is now clear that Buford Furrow, the man who shot and injured three children and two adults at the community center and killed a Filipino-American postal worker, was connected with neo-Nazi and extremist right-wing organizations and groups in the U.S.
Furrow’s automatic-rifle attack was well-planned; his van contained thousands of rounds of ammunition that could have been used in later assaults, some flak vests, body armor and survivalist literature, a Washington state map. Tracts titled War Cycles, Peace Cycles and Ranger Handbook were also found in the van.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Buford Furrow, 37, reportedly lived with (or according to other sources was married to), Debbie Mathews, the widow of Robert J. Mathews. Mathews had been head of “The Order” (
www.adl.org/backgrounders/an_phineas.html), the most violent and notorious American domestic terrorist group of the 1980s. Furrow allegedly met Debbie Mathews at the headquarters of Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi and Christian Identity group based in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Robert Mathews, died in 1984 in a shoot-out and fire while trying to hold off federal agents who had surrounded his hideout on Whidbey Island, Washington.
According to former neo-Nazi skinhead Tom Leyden, now a consultant for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, in the mid-1990s Furrow was a skinhead giving hand-to-hand combat training at a Hitler Youth Camp in Hayden Lake. Leyden was quoted by CNN, said that Furrow’s philosophy was “hardcore Christian Identity.” His worldview included the belief that “the Jews are evil, that the whites are good and the good have to go kill the evil.”
Despite reports of possible links to hate groups, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks said the suspect Furrow appeared to be working alone in the Jewish center incident.
The United States and Russia lead in right-wing terrorist attacks
A not exhaustive list of shooting and bombing attacks in the last few months illustrates the sharp rise in Right Wing extremist attacks
4 April 1999: A powerful blast outside a downtown Moscow office of Russia’s Federal Security Service injured three people and shattered dozens of windows.
According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), officials with the Federal Security Service believe that the bombing may have been the work of the same obscure group that claimed responsibility for a failed grenade-launcher attack on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in late April. That attack was reportedly carried out to protest the U.S.-led NATO military operation in Yugoslavia.
The group that claimed responsibility for the failed embassy attack recently urged those U.S. citizens who opposed the NATO air strikes to leave Moscow. The group, called Skif—which means Scythian, an ancient warlike people—said it would continue “acts of retribution” against those Americans remaining in Moscow after its deadline.
According to other sources the bombing may have been the work of the same people who bombed a Moscow synagogue on May 13, 1999, because the bomb was identical to the device used in the bombing of the Marina Roscha Synagogue (see below). Security service officials also said that both had been planted in a similar manner. The officials gave no explanation why those responsible for the synagogue attack would want to bomb the Federal Security Service office.
17 April 1999: A homemade bomb injured nearly 40 people in Brixton, a
mostly black neighborhood of London, Great Britain.
On April 24 another bomb detonated in the trunk of a car in Brick Lane, a primarily Bangladeshi neighborhood in London's East End. Six people were injured, none seriously. This was the second race-related attack within a week. The two bombs were apparently of the same type - nails, shrapnel and a simple timer.
On April 30, an explosion at the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, London left three people dead. Two of the dead were a pregnant woman and the best man at her wedding. Sixty-five people were injured; many lost limbs or were severely mutilated by flying glass and nails.
In both cases a neo-Nazi group called Combat 18 claimed responsibility for the blasts. As was the case with the Brixton bombing, the target in the Brick Lane attack appears to have been chosen for symbolic value. The racially mixed Brick Lane community was the focus of a two-decade battle by residents and anti-racism activists to shut down the local office of the right-wing National Front.
British police have arrested and charged a 22 year-old engineer with carrying out the series of bombings in London. David Copeland of Cove, Copeland was charged with perpetrating all three of the bombings. Inside Copeland's home police discovered explosives, wiring, batteries, clocks, sports bags and several pounds of nails.
He was apparently working on his own and police say that they are not looking for any one else in connection with the attacks. Assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, David Veness, said at a press conference that Copeland doesn't appear to have any connection to neo-Nazi groups.
13 May 1999: The Marina Roscha synagogue in Moscow, Russia, was bombed just minutes after some 70 children and their teachers had left the three-story synagogue building after celebrating the Jewish holiday of Lag B’Omer. Two workers at a nearby construction site at a Jewish community center were lightly injured by the blast. The bomb, equivalent to more than a pound of TNT, partially destroyed two floors of the building
The same night the Marina Roscha synagogue was attacked, a burning container was thrown at the Darchei Shalom synagogue, the newest of Moscow’s four synagogues. The container caused a small fire near the building’s outer wall. Three days later, the rabbi’s car was burned outside Darchei Shalom.
A neo-Nazi group, Russian National Unity, allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack on the Marina Roscha synagogue. But the group’s leader, Alexander Barkashov, denied that it was involved. Several nationalist leaders, however, said the attack could have been a reaction to the prominence of Jews in the Yeltsin government.
18 May, 1999: An explosive charge was discovered inside a bag at the entrance to the “Shalom” theater in Moscow. One of the theater employees said she found a bag on May 10. Hoping that someone would come to pick it up, she took the bag out of the building and left it outside without checking its contents. Days later, a passer-by took the bag and left its contents—a cylinder-shaped explosive device—at the theater’s entrance. The police defused the device.
May 1999: The synagogue belonging to the Birobidzhan Jewish community, in the autonomous province of Russia, was damaged twice this month. A bomb was discovered at the synagogue less than three weeks after two bombs went off near Moscow’s two largest synagogues. Police said there could be a link between the three events.
May 1999: In Britain, shots were fired at the Maccabi building in London. The background of the attack is unclear.
18 June 1999: Arsonists attacked three synagogues in Sacramento, California. The attacks occurred almost simultaneously, indicating that they were coordinated. Anti-Jewish and anti-NATO leaflets found on the premises read, inter alia: “The ugly American and NATO aggressors are the ultimate hypocrites. The fake Albanian refugee crises was manufactured by the Jewish media to justify the terrorizing, the bestial bombing of our Yugoslavia back into the dark ages,” and “We are Slavs, we will never allow the international Jewish World Order to take our Land.” The police suspect that The National Alliance and the World Church of the Creator were behind the attacks (
http://www.adl.org/backgrounders/sacramento_arsons.html#wcotc). These two white supremacist organizations habeen expanding and have become increasingly active in the United States.
28 June 1999: A car-bomb targeted antifascist activist and his eight-year-old son in the Stockholm suburb of Nacka, Sweden. The explosion seriously injured both passengers. This act was the culmination of a series of nazi harassment directed against antifascist activists in the Stockholm area.
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World: Europe Swedes rally against racists
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