Army of God
September 4, 2013
The Army of God I have researched a number of different terrorist groups, and I find The Army of God (AOG) to be most appealing. What drew me in was the fact that this group is so concerned about abortions that they go to the extreme of blowing up clinics. They believe abortions are wrong, and they are also against the homosexuality. The Army of God is an example of a low level fundamentalist terrorist group; it is an underground network of terrorists in the United States that was formed in the early 1980’s. An anonymous soldier of the AOG created a manual in the early 1980’s, advocating violence against clinic providers. The manual was privately printed and closely guarded; it was activists’ “how-to” manual. The manual showed the soldiers how to harass and attack and also kill abortion providers. One leader of the movement is a man by the name of Reverend Donald Spitz (whom the government describes as the “webmaster” of the Army of God Web site). He posts numerous racist and homophobic diatribes on the AOG site. Spitz was kicked out of an anti-abortion group by the name Operation Rescue for the murder of Dr. David Gunn in 1993. The earliest documented incident of AOG being involved with anti-abortion activity occurred in 1982. Hector Zevallos, an abortion doctor, and his wife Rosalee Jean were held hostage, they were later released unharmed. The AOG claimed responsibility for planting bombs at seven abortion clinics in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. in 1985. A man by the name of Clayton Waagner, claiming to act on the part of the “Virginia Dare Chapter” of the AOG, mailed over 500 letters containing white powder to 280 abortion providers in 2001. Though the letters were not identified as anthrax, it was a tactic that took advantage of the public’s fear of biological warfare after the recent real anthrax attacks.
Many of the accompanying letters were signed “Army of God, Virginia Dare Chapter”. Waagner was arrested by
The Army of God I have researched a number of different terrorist groups, and I find The Army of God (AOG) to be most appealing. What drew me in was the fact that this group is so concerned about abortions that they go to the extreme of blowing up clinics. They believe abortions are wrong, and they are also against the homosexuality. The Army of God is an example of a low level fundamentalist terrorist group; it is an underground network of terrorists in the United States that was formed in the early 1980’s. An anonymous soldier of the AOG created a manual in the early 1980’s, advocating violence against clinic providers. The manual was privately printed and closely guarded; it was activists’ “how-to” manual. The manual showed the soldiers how to harass and attack and also kill abortion providers. One leader of the movement is a man by the name of Reverend Donald Spitz (whom the government describes as the “webmaster” of the Army of God Web site). He posts numerous racist and homophobic diatribes on the AOG site. Spitz was kicked out of an anti-abortion group by the name Operation Rescue for the murder of Dr. David Gunn in 1993. The earliest documented incident of AOG being involved with anti-abortion activity occurred in 1982. Hector Zevallos, an abortion doctor, and his wife Rosalee Jean were held hostage, they were later released unharmed. The AOG claimed responsibility for planting bombs at seven abortion clinics in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. in 1985. A man by the name of Clayton Waagner, claiming to act on the part of the “Virginia Dare Chapter” of the AOG, mailed over 500 letters containing white powder to 280 abortion providers in 2001. Though the letters were not identified as anthrax, it was a tactic that took advantage of the public’s fear of biological warfare after the recent real anthrax attacks.
Many of the accompanying letters were signed “Army of God, Virginia Dare Chapter”. Waagner was arrested by