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FEAR Plot to Overthrow U.S. Government Part of Rising Domestic Extremism

Domestic Extremism

A U.S. Army soldier’s revelation that his group, FEAR, planned terrorist attacks at home underscores the growing threat of domestic extremism. By Jesse Ellison.

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On Monday, Pfc. Michael Burnett told a Georgia courtroom that last December he had watched as a fellow soldier shot a 17-year-old girl in the woods near their base, “checked [her] pulse and then shot her again.”

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