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When Jesse Morton watched as the U.S. Capitol was stormed, he recalled the ferocious faith he once had not as supporter of President Donald Trump, but as a jihadi recruiter on a mission from God.
Like some of Trump s most ardent backers, Morton was also deplatformed by social media companies like YouTube, where he was one of Al Qaeda s most prolific English-language recruiters, giving him a rare personal insight into the future they face. A lot of what we see unfolding in front of us now, with regard to the far right, I experienced directly, when the primary threat we were concerned with was the jihadists, he said last week from his home in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Before separating from the Army in 1991, Timothy McVeigh used to wear a T-shirt he got as part of a trial membership in the Ku Klux Klan. In his Army barracks, in full view of Black soldiers, McVeigh advertised his adherence to WHITE POWER. In his spare time, McVeigh frequented gun shows, where, in addition to amassing and selling weapons, he hawked copies of the seminal white terror-manifesto novel
The Turner Diaries. The Army had regulations in place to ban “active participation” in terrorist groups like the KKK its prohibitions on