Friday, February 14, 2003

Right Wing Terrorism Watch


Federal authorities said a man who is pictured in a Ku Klux Klan Web site as the group's leader planned to attack abortion clinics with hand grenades and bombs.

David W. Hull, 40, was charged with giving a disassembled pipe bomb to someone who is cooperating in a federal firearms investigation.

Hull was arrested Thursday at his home in Amwell Township, Washington County on the charge, filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

A Web site calling itself the home page of the order of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan includes a photo of Hull holding a gun in front of a Confederate flag, his address, and calls Hull the group's "Imperial Wizard."

Bettysue Feuer, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League office in Cleveland, said Hull is the leader of the White Knights of Pennsylvania. The ADL tracks white supremacist groups.