Aryan Republican Army

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Aryan Republican Army is the name of a white power criminal and terrorist group that was active in the United States in the early 1990s . The group was believed to have worked with terrorist Timothy McVeigh a few months before the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City . Another name given to the organization by the media was Midwest Bank Robbers .

Criminal activity

Members of the Aryan Republican Army were responsible for 22 bank robberies in the US Midwest . They chose this region because they suspected that security there was looser than in the rest of the country. Well-known members of the group were Michael William Brescia , Mark William Thomas, Richard Lee Guthrie Jr., Peter Kevin Langan, Kevin McCarthy and Scott Stedeford. Guthrie, Langan, McCarthy, and Thomas testified as witnesses after their arrest. Richard Lee Guthrie hanged himself in his cell the day before he was due to give a television interview. He wanted to make statements about the death of Kenneth Michael Trentadue , who had also hanged himself during his imprisonment. The remaining members of the group received prison sentences of different lengths.

Links to the Oklahoma bombing

Brescia and Guthrie lived in Elohim City , Oklahoma, a congregation made up of members of the Christian Identity Movement led by Rev Robert G. Millar . Other members of the right-wing extremist movement lived in the community. Other members of the ARA also went in and out there. Federal authorities found evidence that McVeigh had called Elohim City on April 5, 1995, just two weeks before the bombings. Five witnesses confirmed that three days later, on April 8, 1995, Brescia met with McVeigh in Tulsa and paid for all drinks there. Two other witnesses said McVeigh and Brescia were friends. There were also several matches between Guthrie and an unknown accomplice who was named " John Doe Number Two" by the police . Timothy McVeigh's sister Jennifer also claimed that her brother participated in some of the bank robberies.

documentation

In 2010, the Aryan Republican Army was portrayed in the 82nd episode of the documentary television show Gangland .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: America's 'Aryan' hard men take lead from IRA . In: London Sunday Telegraph , December 8, 1996. Archived from the original on March 8, 2005. Retrieved August 31, 2012. 
  2. ^ William F. Jasper: Terror, lies & memos: recently uncovered FBI documents expose official lies and complicity in one of our nation's most deadly terror attacks . In: The New American , November 28, 2005. Retrieved February 5, 2013. 
  3. ^ The Independent: Does one man on death row hold the secret of Oklahoma? , The Independent . January 29, 2004. Retrieved December 14, 2008. 
  4. ^ Joseph A. Slobodzian: Hate-group Organizer Given 8-year Prison Term . In: Philadelphia Inquirer , March 20, 1998. Retrieved August 31, 2012. 
  5. ^ Extremism in America: Elohim City . The Anti-Defamation League. August 9, 2002. Retrieved August 31, 2012.