Prosecutors Target White Supremacist Gang

[Eugene]

Prosecutors Target White Supremacist Gang


Monday March 6, 2006 7:01 PM

By GILLIAN FLACCUS

Associated Press Writer

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - The inmates had to heat the letter to draw out the message, written
in invisible ink. When they did, their orders were clear.

Within hours, prosecutors say, members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang sneaked into a nearby
cellblock and killed two black inmates with handmade shanks as part of an order to "go to war"
with blacks.

The deaths are two of the 32 murders and attempted murders detailed by federal prosecutors
in a sweeping case against the Aryan Brotherhood, a violent white supremacist prison gang
that has infiltrated nearly every federal and state prison since its beginnings in San Quentin
in 1964.

Prosecutors hope to dismantle the gang - nicknamed the "Brand" - in a series of trials
that together make up what's believed to be the biggest capital murder case in U.S. history.
Of the 40 men initially charged, as many as 16 could face the death penalty for crimes that reach
back 30 years.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5666754,00.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Prosecutors Target White Supremacist Gang

Prosecutors Target White Supremacist Gang

By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press Writer

March 6, 2006, 1:56 PM EST

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The inmates had to heat the letter to draw out the message, written in invisible ink. When they did, their orders were clear.

Within hours, prosecutors say, members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang sneaked into a nearby cellblock and killed two black inmates with handmade shanks as part of an order to "go to war" with blacks.

The deaths are two of the 32 murders and attempted murders detailed by federal prosecutors in a sweeping case against the Aryan Brotherhood, a violent white supremacist prison gang that has infiltrated nearly every federal and state prison since its beginnings in San Quentin in 1964.

Prosecutors hope to dismantle the gang -- nicknamed the "Brand" -- in a series of trials that together make up what's believed to be the biggest capital murder case in U.S. history. Of the 40 men initially charged, as many as 16 could face the death penalty for crimes that reach back 30 years.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-aryan-brotherhood,0,4685794.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[marmar]

2. California prisons sound like wonderful places, don't they?

:scared:

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. If this as successful as invading Afghanistan and Iraq to quell terrorism

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'nuff said

[roguevalley]

4. its pathetic, this war over little rectangle cells in a super max.

I hope they nail all of them.