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Source: WaPo
By Shane Harris and Devlin Barrett
Jan. 16, 2020 at 10:55 a.m. EST
The FBI has arrested alleged members of a white supremacist group on federal gun charges and other alleged crimes, according to people familiar with the matter.
The charges, expected to be unsealed Thursday, grew from an investigation of a somewhat new effort among online extremists who refer to themselves as the Base, the English translation of al Qaida. According to experts who track hate groups, the Base promotes racist views and seeks to unite different hate groups in preparation for a race war.
At least one of the individuals was arrested in Maryland, these people said.
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray warned Congress in the fall that American neo-Nazis seem increasingly to be communicating with like-minded violent racists overseas, but he cautioned that those links so far appear more inspirational than organizational.
We are starting to see racially motivated violent extremists connecting with like-minded individuals online certainly, and in some instances, we have seen people travel overseas to train, Wray said.
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