FBI Prepares For Armageddon. (In Israel and US)!

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11/5/99

FBI Prepares For Armageddon.

American racists, rightwing groups and religious cults are actively planning for violent confrontations to mark the end of the millennium, the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned.

The FBI has alerted local police chiefs across the US that it has discovered evidence that some of the groups may use the dawn of the new millennium as a catalyst for armed action against government authority and the far right's other enemies.

The FBI will brief international law enforcement authorities on the dangers at a meeting of world police chiefs in North Carolina this week. The bureau believes that Israel faces a particularly serious threat because some millennarian groups believe the final confrontation with their enemies will take place in Jerusalem.

In a report prepared by the bureau's domestic terrorism unit, the FBI says members of militias and racist groups, including one called Christian Identity and another called Odinism, are acquiring weapons and surveying targets as the new year nears.

The 34-page report says potential targets include military sites, United Nations buildings and personnel, and black American and Jewish institutions.

The report, leaked to the Washington Post yesterday, urges local police to monitor radical rightwing groups and watch for evidence of stockpiling food, weapons and other supplies.

`If a cult sells its property and personal effects and purchases guns and explosives, we need to be more concerned about what that cult will do on January 1,' Neil Gallagher, head of the FBI's national security division, told the paper.

The report says those most likely to perpetrate violence are groups which believe that the end of the millennium signals the final apocalypse of life on earth or are New World Order conspiracists convinced that the UN has a secret plan to conquer the US.

Such groups are particularly liable to read a sinister explanation into power cuts or computer glitches associated with the millennium bug. `The threat posed by extremists as a result of perceived events associated with the year 2000 is very real,' the FBI report says.

`The volatile mix of apocalyptic religious and conspiracy theories may produce violent acts aimed at precipitating the end of the world as prophesied in the Bible.'

The report is the result of a nine-month FBI intelligence-gathering effort, named Project Megiddo after a hill in northern Israel that has been the site of many battles. The Hebrew word `Armageddon' means `hill of Megiddo'.

By Martin Kettle in Chicago. GUARDIAN 01/11/1999 P11

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