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COMPANY A M E R I C A S T E R R O R I S T U N D E R G R O U N D Mark S Hamm . IN TT COMPANY AMERICAS TERRORIST UNDERGROUND The dramatic sieges at Randy Weaverscabinin Ruby Ridge, Idaho,and the BranchDavidian compound in Waco,Texas,combined withtheFBIs reluctance to admit wrongdoing in thosetragic confrontations,fueleda virulent hatredof the federal government that unified previously isolated voices within the extremeradical right movement.As a result,the scores of clandestine paramilitary cells that flourished in the aftermath of Ruby Ridge and Waco formed aloosely knit undergroundnetwork witha shared goal to violently overthrow theU.S. . government This gripping volume examines thoroughly oneof the most dangerous of thosephantomcells-the Aryan Republican Army (ARA).Usingtrialtranscripts, interviews,asecret diary,newspaper accounts,and ethnographic research,MarkS.Hammprovidesa compelling history of the ARA,itsorganizers,and therevolutionary group’s significanceinsupporting acts of domestic terrorism,includingitspreviously unrecognized role inTimothy McVeigh’sdevastating bombing of the AlfredP.Murrah FederalBuildingin OklahomaCity.He interweaveshis narrative witha penetrating discussion of why people likeMcVeigh and the ARA members embrace the violent neo-Nazi subculture and why their hatredtakesthe formof terrorist activities. Hamm centers hisrivetingaccount of the ARA on the troubledlife histories of foundersPeterKevin (continued on back flap) CURRENT EVENTS/CRIMINAL JUSTICE P r a i s e f o r IN COMPANY AMERICA S TERRORIST UNDERGROUND With the roots and trappings of terrorism at the forefront of national consciousness, Hamms study of domestic terrorism is especially timely. Hamm offers a detailed look at the Aryan Republican Army (ARA), a radical right cell that he suspects actively assisted Timothy McVeigh.... Hamms compelling perspective ... will interest readers seeking more information about this violent subculture. [The author] presents a credible picture of a terrifying right wing blossoming under the right circumstances, particularly when the FBI and ATF wax into their periodic modes of militarized masculinity. Indeed, there’s no reason to think that the mare’s nest of associations between groups of the violent right is anything but humming along, which is enough to run a shiver of dread right up the spine. Hamm explores the milieu of the Aryan Republican Army, whose six members rode hell-for-leather through the...peculiar world of the radical right’ in the 1990s, robbing banks and otherwise expressing their righteous hatred’ and often racist political goals. It isnt a pretty story, nor is everything in it what you might expect.... With more oblique twists and turns than fiction could sustain, Hamm’s explo ration of the underground that nurtured the likes of Tim McVeigh reminds us that, Osama bin Laden notwithstanding, homegrown kooks remain a threat. iooklist SBN1-55553-492-9 90000 Northeastern University Press Boston, Massachusetts 02115 www.nupress.neu.edu 55 McGregor Langanand Richard WildBill Guthrie, as wellas onprofiles of the foot soldiers in the movement.He explores the similar social,cultural, andpersonal forces that attractedthese men to the WhiteSupremacy movement and ChristianIdentity,a theology that gives theblessing of God to theracist cause,andthat drove them onacriminal path to terrorism.Drawing historical parallels withthe motivesand tactics of JesseJames and his gangs crimespree,Hamm focuses on how Langan andhis paramilitary gang committedastring of armed bank robberiesto finance the overthrow of the federal government through such terrorist attacks as train derailments,assassinations,and bombings. Hammconcludes this absorbingyet disconcerting journeythrough Americasunderground terrorist conspiracy by challenging the government's assertion that Timothy McVeighactedas alone wolf inthe OklahomaCity bombing.Instead,he offers startling newevidencethat connects McVeighto the Aryan Republican Army. . MARK S HAMM is Professor of Criminology at IndianaState University.Heisthe author of American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime, The Abandoned Ones: The Imprisonment and Uprising of the Mariel Boat People, and Apocalypse in Oklahoma: Waco and Ruby Ridge Revenged.Heisthe coeditor of Ethnography on the Edge:Crime, Deviance,and Field Research. Jacket design by Peter M. Blaiwas Photocourtesy of VCG/FPG InternationalLLC . m . - - aa'a BAD OMPANY AdvisorinCriminalJusticeto Northeastern UniversityPress GilGeis BAD OMPANY AMERICASTERRORIST UNDERGROUND Mark S. Hamm NortheasternUniversity Press Boston NortheasternUniversityPress Copyright©2002byMarkS.Hamm Allrightsreserved.Exceptforthequotationof shortpassagesforthe purposesof criticismandreview,nopartof thisbookmaybereproducedin anyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying, recording,oranyinformationstorageandretrievalsystemnowknownor tobeinvented,withoutwrittenpermissionof thepublisher. Libraryof CongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Hamm,MarkS. Inbadcompany:Americasterroristunderground / MarkS.Hamm, p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN1-55553-492-9(cloth:alk.paper) 1.AryanRepublicanArmy.2.Terrorism UnitedStates.3.OklahomaCityFederal BuildingBombing,OklahomaCity.Okla.,1995.1.Tide. HV6432.5.A79H362001 322.4'2'o973 dc2i 2001030904 DesignedbyStephanieDoyle ComposedinDantebyCoghillCompositionCompanyinRichmond,Virginia. PrintedandboundbyThomson-Shore,Inc.,inDexter,Michigan.Thepaperis WritersOffset,anacid-freesheet. 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