A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky who was devoted to a violent extremist group seeking to erode or destroy Western civilization was sentenced to the maximum 45 years in prison.
Obscure neo-Nazi Satanist group Order of Nine Angles becomes latest domestic terror threat: CIA and FBI fear extremely violent group is making inroads among supremacists
The National Counterterrorism Center raised alarm about the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) in an internal report obtained by Yahoo News
The report describes O9A as a decentralized group that advocates a violent extremist interpretation of Satanism and promotes white supremacist ideology
It warns that O9A could be exacerbating conflicts among racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists
O9A is believed to have been founded in the United Kingdom in the 1970s