By the time George W. Bush was sworn into office in January of
2001 as the 43rd President of the United States, the U.S. Department
of Justice had been tracking the BWU for close to fifteen years. The
FBI and ATF in particular had gone after the group relentlessly and
succeeded in rounding up many of its rank and file as well as some of
its leaders. But the biggest fish of all, Oscar Benjamin Liddell, kept
eluding their grasp. There were suspicions that the Brotherhood had at
least one infiltrator inside the FBI’s ranks who was tipping Liddell
off every time the agency was close to arresting him, and accordingly
an internal probe was launched in February of 2001 to determine if in
fact there was such a mole operating within the bureau. Simultaneously
FBI agents were infiltrated into white supremacist groups known or at
least suspected to be linked to the Brotherhood in the hope that these
agents might be able to pick up useful information eventually leading
to Liddell’s arrest.
Liddell, however, was very careful to guard the secrecy of his
movements from federal authorities. At one point he even managed to
book a hotel room in Washington just blocks from FBI headquarters;
not until his death would the Justice Department realize the highly
tantalizing opportunity they had missed to put an early end to his
violent campaign for racial purity. (Just the same he went to rather
extraordinary lengths to disguise his physical appearance from any
potential undercover informants let law enforcement get wind of his
presence.)
As the FBI’s search for a potential informant intensified, so did
Liddell’s preparations to mount what he termed “a historic blow in the
defense of the white race”. Through fraud, counterfeiting, and outright
armed robbery the BWU leader and his associates built themselves up a
highly substantial underground fund that they could draw on to purchase
weapons and explosives; it was this fund with which they would finance
the worst act of mass murder ever committed by the Brotherhood. It would
also fund the training of the men who perpetrated that murder. Despite
the best efforts of the Justice Department and the IRS to shut off the
financial spigots that kept the Brotherhood going, Liddell was somehow
able to maintain a steady flow of cash into the hate group’s coffers.
In April of 2001, while most of the American media was focused on
the standoff between Washington and Beijing over an off-course U.S. Navy
reconnaissance plane, Liddell and his top deputies stepped up their
ongoing preparations for their most high-profile strike yet: an attack
on New York City. There was some argument as to where the main blow of
the attack should be aimed, but there was never a doubt the World Trade
Center would be high on the list of potential targets. In fact, Liddell
regarded the WTC strike as the opening shot in the “racial holy war” he
and his fellow neo-Nazis had so long been predicting and advocating. In
a taped address to his supporters released in May of 2001, Liddell said
he wanted to wipe “the towers of Zog” off the face of the earth in one
fell swoop. And in case any of his followers doubted that he was totally
serious on that point, he recorded another such tape two weeks later in
which he explicitly stated that destroying the World Trade Center would
be “the greatest achievement of my life”. One can only wonder whether he
still felt that way ten years later as FBI bullets were ripping through
his body.
By July of 2001 the Brotherhood had moved into the final phase of
preparation for the World Trade Center attack and time for the Justice
Department to track down Liddell and his cohorts was slowly but surely
running out. By now the list of targets for the planned suicide attack
had gone beyond simply hitting New York; there were strikes against the
Pentagon and Capitol Hill in the works and some of Liddell’s followers
had even proposed an attack on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The Golden Gate attack never took place, but the fact it was considered
is a perfect illustration of the BWU's eagerness to strike a blow at the
imagined “ZOG” enemy anywhere they could. In any event Liddell was ready
to declare war on the multicultural society he and his followers loathed
so much.
In August of 2001 the nineteen men who'd been charged to carry out
the World Trade Center attack began making their way to New York and New
Jersey to await the final go-ahead signal from the BWU leadership. As a
diversionary tactic to keep the Feds guessing as to the BWU's intentions
in case the soon-to-be-hijackers were under surveillance, Maurice Axton
and two of his fellow Brotherhood members took a detour to Las Vegas to
spend a few days playing the blackjack tables and slot machines. Liddell
himself, meanwhile, retired to a mountain cabin in Wyoming from which he
would issue both his official directive to start the attack and the BWU's
declaration of war on "ZOG". Knowing the Justice Department might well be
monitoring his phone lines in an attempt to track down his location, the
Brotherhood leader chose to put out the attack order by means of a typed
one-page letter which would be photocopied and sent out to the leaders of
the hijack teams via Federal Express; the declaration of war was to come
in the form of a videotape which Liddell would produce with the help of a
trusted associate and a camcorder and would then be anonymously released
to the media once the attack was underway. Once it was confirmed that the
attack had taken place Liddell would issue a third message-- this one to
his fellow BWU members instructing them to go to ground in order to avoid
being arrested by federal or state authorities.
On September 9th the three teams assigned to carry out the attacks on
New York and Washington arrived in Warwick, Rhode Island and checked into
an inexpensive motel near the city’s T.F. Green Airport. The Brotherhood
was now just forty-eight hours away from carrying out the most horrendous
domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history....
