NEO-NAZIS - Praise terrorists

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NEO-NAZI AMERICANS HAIL THE BUTCHERS

By BRAD HUNTER

October 3, 2001 -- American neo-Nazis are praising Osama bin Laden in the wake of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

On Web sites and in interviews with The Post, some fringe groups are expressing sympathy - and even support - for the terrorists who snuffed out the lives of some 6,000 Americans.

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," said August Kreis, a spokesman for Sheriff's Posse Comitatus and Aryan Nations, from his compound in rural Pennsylvania.

Kreis, who spoke of "an ideological oneness" with the terrorists, has a Web site that attacks the federal government, Israel and Jews, and praises the "Islamic freedom fighters."

Billy Roper, of the National Alliance, echoes Kreis' rhetoric. In an e-mail to NA members, which he said was pirated by the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center, Roper wrote: "The enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friend.

"We may not want them marrying our daughter, just as they would not want us marrying theirs. We may not want them in our societies, just as they would not want us in theirs. But anyone willing to drive a plane into a building to kill Jews is all right by me. I wish our members had half as much testicular fortitude."

Roper said his e-mail was "stripped of context," noting "most of the people killed in the attack were whites, the very people the National Alliance are trying to reach out to."

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001


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