The Last Circle

[Jan Klimkowski]

Cheri - I echo Magda's comments. Welcome to DPF, and thank you for your posts and your ongoing investigative journalism.

I entirely share your research and instincts about agent provocateur infiltration of the Elohim City and related groups, and Dennis Mahon's central role.

However, as I'm certain you know there's also the curious case of Carol Howe, and the inimitable and elusive German, Andreas Strassmeir.

Below I've posted the entire text of the 2009 article about Mahon's, um, provocative activities:

Missouri gun arrest has connections to Arizona bombing

By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press Writer
Published: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:13 AM CDT


PHOENIX (AP) -- Two white supremacists from Illinois have been indicted in a 2004 mail bombing that injured the diversity director in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, federal authorities said.

Twin brothers Dennis and Daniel Mahon are charged with conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosive, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday and filed June 16 in federal court.

The indictment says the brothers intended to "promote racial discord" on behalf of the White Aryan Resistance, a decades-old group based in California.

The package detonated in the hands of Don Logan, who is black, on Feb. 26, 2004, in the city's Human Resources Complex.

The blast injured Logan's hand and arm, and a secretary also was injured; both required surgery and spent about a week in the hospital.

Authorities arrested the brothers Thursday in their Davis Junction, Ill., home and say they had assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and white supremacist material.

Authorities didn't know if the brothers had attorneys. There are no telephone numbers listed for Mahon in Davis Junction.

A Missouri man's arrest Wednesday also arose from the bombing, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Missouri. Robert Neil Joos, 56, was charged with being a felon in possession of firearms after a search of his property in rural southwest Missouri.

An undercover investigation found that people involved in white supremacist movements throughout the U.S. met at a retreat location in Missouri owned by Joos, according to prosecutors. And an affidavit filed supporting the arrest shows investigators found the first call Dennis Mahon made the morning of the bombing was to a cell phone registered to Joos.

Dennis Mahon also is charged with malicious damage of a building by means of explosive and distribution of information related to explosives, according to the indictment.

"We've waited five years to hear the news announced today," Logan said in a statement released Thursday. "Today's announcement was met with much enthusiasm and appreciation ... I remain convinced the judicial process will result in justice to me and my colleagues impacted by the blast."

Authorities at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment until a news conference scheduled for Friday morning.

The indictment says the brothers conspired to build and deliver the bomb to the diversity office, taught others how to build a package containing a pipe bomb, and sent training materials on the production and use of explosives, techniques to avoid detection by law enforcement, and methods to commit domestic terrorism.

The indictment says Dennis Mahon participated in the construction of the bomb, disguising it in a cardboard box that was delivered to the Scottsdale diversity office.

One month before the bombing, the indictment says, Dennis Mahon called the diversity office and left a message saying, "the White Aryan Resistance is growing in Scottsdale. There's a few white people who are standing up."

The package was addressed to Logan, who served as an ombudsman for city employees and citizens on diversity issues, including racial and sex discrimination. The bomb was sent through the post office to the city building, which is about a block from City Hall. The explosion forced the evacuation of 25 people in the building.

"This event really struck home," Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said Thursday. "It caused a lot of fear and grief, and it's been a long road in the investigation, and we're certainly glad it's moving forward."

Dennis Mahon also is accused of teaching others how to blow up a vehicle and a house, how to build a package pipe bomb using a 9-volt battery, black powder, and an electric match, and how to avoid detection by law enforcement, according to the indictment.

The indictment also says he mailed various instructional books about building bombs to an individual in Wickenburg, Ariz. Among them were "Poor Man's James' Bond 2" and "A Manual of Urban Guerrilla Warfare, Fighting in the Streets."

The Missouri affidavit says the Mahons told an undercover federal agent that white supremacists used Joos's remote property in southwestern Missouri's McDonald County for survival training.

One of the Mahon brothers described Joos as "an expert on weapons, explosives, bomb making and general survival skills," the affidavit said.

Joos himself told undercover agents who visited his property of the importance of having firearms "in several locations" and said he used 18 caves to hide weapons, according to the affidavit.

Joos is expected to be appointed a federal public defender. There was no answer at that office Thursday night and there was no home telephone listed for Joos in southwest Missouri.

http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2009...ombing.txt