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Indulging in Traitorous Escapades

"Melzer allegedly provided this potentially deadly information intending that it be conveyed to jihadi terrorists."
"[The planned attack was a] murderous ambush [designed by] the enemy motivated by racism and hatred as he attempted to carry out this ultimate act of betrayal."
Acting U.S.Attorney Audrey Strauss, Southern District of New York

"[09A] encourages acolytes to engage in forbidden and illegal acts, including extreme violence, sexual assault, assassinations and human sacrifice."
"[09A has more recently gained prominence online, allowing its propaganda to be easily accessed by] young radicals drawn to extreme fringe ideas."
Hope not Hate anti-hate advocacy organization, U.K.

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Ethan Melzer joined the US.army in 2018 and enthusiastically became involved with 09A when 2019 arrived. It is an organization promoting "violent, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and Satanic beliefs", according to New York-based prosecutors. Its adherents express their admiration of Adolf Hitler and Islamic terrorists like Osama bin Lade, according to those same prosecutors, Britain faced pressure from activists to outlaw the UK-based 09A as a terrorist organization.

A truly 'exotic' group, it intertwines Satanism, paganism and Nazism in the creation of their own very special "bizarre pseudo-religious political cult", believed to have originated in the early1970s. 09A furthermore has gained online prominence enabling its propaganda to be readily accessed by "young radicals drawn to extreme fringe ideas". Private Melzer concocted a scheme which would have made his unit in the U.S. army vulnerable to a violent attack.

First he prepared for a deployment in April at which point 22-year-old Melzer from Louisville forwarded a series of electronic messages to share details relating to his unit's location, their movements and security. Those messages went out to members of the Order of Nine Angies (09A), organization through a series of electronic messages for the purpose of launching a "mass casualty" attack, causing the deaths of "as any of his fellow service members as possible", read an indictment presented in court on Monday.

That Melzer's own life was at risk in reflection of a murderous plot he hatched against his unit, seemed not to bother him the least bit. Accusations that he leaked sensitive information about his unit to a satanic neo-Nazi cult leading to a plot to launch an attack, he said: "I would've died successfully". The success seen not in the scope of plans for a mass attack with resulting mortalities, but in his imperturbable belief in himself and his dedication to death, hoping to be killed with his overseas unit.

Unfortunately for him the FBI and the army thwarted his carefully guarded plans, arresting him on June 10 and charging him with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. nationals; conspiring and attempting to murder military service members; providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and finally, conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country, according to the news
release.

The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate published a report citing research recognizing a 320 percent rise in terrorist attacks with links to movements and far-right ideologies over the last five years. A "growing and increasingly transnational threat posed by extreme right-wing terrorism" the report noted, mentioning attacks becoming more intensive both in frequency and lethality.

Members and associates of 09A are known to take part in acts of violence, including murder.
Notified of his unit's assignment, moving to a different foreign base, Melzer used an encrypted application to message members of 09A and the RapeWaffen Division, with messages containing conversations relating to his umit's upcoming deployment.

As Ethan Melzer's U.S. Army unit prepared for a deployment in April, the young private recognized that he could be killed while overseas and expressed an apparent willingness to die.