Telegraph

AMERICA'S most extreme far-Right "patriot" organisations - those supported by Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber - have welcomed the September 11 terrorist attacks as a strike on their common enemy, the government.

While the vast majority of Americans have reacted with horror at what happened and been swept up by the national outpouring of grief and patriotism that followed, a number of underground groups have rushed to voice support for the terrorists.

Others have called for militia groups to exploit the chaos caused by the terrorist actions and launch their own assault on the state. Billy Roper, of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, posted a message on his website saying: "The enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friend.

-- Anonymous, September 30, 2001