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INTELLIGENCE BRIEFS
Robert Lewis Dear has
been charged with
killing three people at
a Planned Parenthood
clinic in Colorado —
the most dramatic
attack on such
facilities since a farright
group attacked
the organization with
deceptive videos.
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four arsons in 74 days and a handful
of other criminal or suspicious
incidents, preceded the
deadly shooting. A clinic in
Pullman, Wash., was firebombed
in the early hours of Sept. 4, causing
damage so extensive that
inspectors deemed the building
unsafe. Twenty-eight days
later, a clinic in Thousand Oaks,
Calif., was attacked in almost the
same manner. There were smaller
arsons on July 19 at a clinic in
Aurora, Ill., and on Aug. 1 against a
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vehicle parked at a facility
under construction in
New Orleans.
The rash of antiabortion
violence
seemed clearly to have
been inspired by a collection
of deceptively
edited undercover videos
accusing Planned
Parenthood of illegally
selling “body parts
from aborted fetuses.”
Moments after his arrest,
Dear was reported to
have told officers “no
more baby parts.”
The videos were produced
by the Center
for Medical Progress
(CMP), a group with
close ties to some of America’s
hardest-line anti-abortion
extremists. Although their claims
were quickly debunked by numerous
media outlets, the videos
nonetheless prompted numerous
congressional inquiries and calls
JULY 20
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals declined neo-Nazi
Dennis Mahon’s request to
reverse his 2012 conviction
for mailing a letter bomb that
injured a black city official
and two others at the Scottsdale,
Ariz., Office of Diversity
and Dialogue in 2004. Mahon,
who with his twin brother
Dennis had ties to the White
Aryan Resistance, will be 93
years old when his sentence
ends in 2044.
JULY 24
A Marion, N.C., man who
allegedly wore a Nazi uniform
while conducting “military
training” for hours on end in a
wooded area near his parents’
home was arrested on charges
of being a felon in possession
of a firearm and ordered held
without bond. Mark Schmidt,
49, allegedly told an informant
he planned to kill people
at work and “have a shooting
with the ‘pigs’ and/or ‘feds.’”
Officials said they were contemplating
bringing additional
charges.
AUG. 20
A Lincoln County, Neb., jury
found longtime white supremacist
Rudy Stanko guilty of
theft by deception. Stanko,
who in the early 1990s was
briefly named as the heir
apparent to the then-leader
of the neo-Nazi World Church
of the Creator and who once
served time for intentionally
selling tainted meat to public
schools, had advanced $200 to
Geral Pinault to build a website
for his Nebraska Beef
Company. After researching
Stanko, Pinault decided to
return the $200 in the form of
a money order, which Stanko
kept even though he’d also
canceled his $200 check.
AUG. 28
A Rome, Ga., federal judge
sentenced three Georgia militia
members to 12 years each
in prison, after they pleaded
guilty to charges of conspiracy
to use weapons of mass
destruction. Terry Eugene
Peace, Brian Edward Cannon
and Corey Robert Williamson
plotted to start an
“active revolution against
the government” by targeting
law enforcement agencies
and sabotaging power grids,
transfer stations and water
treatment facilities. The threesome
hoped to spark a declaration
of martial law and a
subsequent uprising by likeminded
militiamen.
SEPT. 2
A Kansas City federal judge
handed down a 20-year sentence
to an avionics technician
who tried to explode a
car bomb at Wichita’s Dwight
D. Eisenhower National Airport.
Terry Lee Loewen, 60,
who in June pleaded guilty
to a single count of attempt-
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