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A new intelligence assessment by the US government has warned about the growing domestic terror threat from right-wing extremist militias in the United States.
Sovereign citizen extremists and other anti-government terrorist groups have carried out 24 violent attacks across the US since 2010, according to an assessment by the US Department of Homeland Security.
The Homeland Security report, produced in coordination with the FBI and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror groups that believe they can ignore laws and that their individual rights are under attack by the federal government.
The government says these extremist groups are carrying out sporadic terror attacks on police, have threatened attacks on government buildings and reject government authority.
"(Sovereign citizen) violence during 2015 will occur most frequently during routine law enforcement encounters at a suspect's home, during enforcement stops and at government offices," the report said.
"Law enforcement officers will remain the primary target of violence over the next year due to their role in physically enforcing laws and regulations," it added.
Many federal and local law enforcement officers view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as the top domestic terror threat.
A survey last year from state and local law enforcement officers named sovereign citizen extremists as the top domestic terror threat, ahead of the threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group, even though the latter garners more public attention.
Many members of the sovereign citizen movement believe that the US government is illegitimate. They reject government authority at its most basic levels, from its power to impose taxes to the enforcement of criminal laws, including common traffic regulations.
The movement is estimated by the Southern Poverty Law Center to number 100,000 hard-core followers and about 200,000 sympathizers across the country.
SOURCE: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/21/398563/DHS-warns-of-terror-threat-by-US-militias
A new intelligence assessment by the US government has warned about the growing domestic terror threat from right-wing extremist militias in the United States.
Sovereign citizen extremists and other anti-government terrorist groups have carried out 24 violent attacks across the US since 2010, according to an assessment by the US Department of Homeland Security.
The Homeland Security report, produced in coordination with the FBI and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror groups that believe they can ignore laws and that their individual rights are under attack by the federal government.
The government says these extremist groups are carrying out sporadic terror attacks on police, have threatened attacks on government buildings and reject government authority.
"(Sovereign citizen) violence during 2015 will occur most frequently during routine law enforcement encounters at a suspect's home, during enforcement stops and at government offices," the report said.
"Law enforcement officers will remain the primary target of violence over the next year due to their role in physically enforcing laws and regulations," it added.
Many federal and local law enforcement officers view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as the top domestic terror threat.
A survey last year from state and local law enforcement officers named sovereign citizen extremists as the top domestic terror threat, ahead of the threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group, even though the latter garners more public attention.
Many members of the sovereign citizen movement believe that the US government is illegitimate. They reject government authority at its most basic levels, from its power to impose taxes to the enforcement of criminal laws, including common traffic regulations.
The movement is estimated by the Southern Poverty Law Center to number 100,000 hard-core followers and about 200,000 sympathizers across the country.
SOURCE: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/21/398563/DHS-warns-of-terror-threat-by-US-militias