FBI busts member of online "Terrorgram" Collective for soliciting murder of US officials
A 24-year-old member of the online hate group, the Terrorgram Collective, on Wednesday was charged in connection with a plot to carry out the murders of multiple “high-value” US officials.
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A 24-year-old member of the online hate group, the Terrorgram Collective, on Wednesday was charged in connection with a plot to carry out the murders of multiple “high-value” US officials.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted 24-year-old Noah Lamb for spearheading a plan to assassinate federal officials and other “high-value targets” in the US.
At the center of Wednesday’s unsealed indictment is an assassination “hit list” said to have been co-created by Lamb with other group members, identifying an unknown number of targets, including US federal, state, and local officials, as well as leaders of private companies and non-governmental organizations.
“Individuals on the list were targeted because of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity, including federal officials, said Acting US Attorney Michele Beckwith for the Eastern District of California, where Lamb will face charges.
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Lamb is said to be an active member of the “Terrorgram Collective” – a violent, right-wing extremist group that the US State Department designated as a global terror organization by the Biden administration in January.
The group, which primarily hosts its operations on the popular Telegram messaging app, is known for its white supremacist dogma, promoting racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism, and has also been sanctioned by the UK and Australia.
It appears Lamb’s indictment is linked to the arrests of two alleged ringleaders of the Terrorgram group last September – 34-year-old Dallas Humber of California, and 37-year-old Matthew Allison of Idaho.
The two men were also hit with a slew of charges, which included targeting a hit list of “high-value” officials, soliciting murder, soliciting hate crimes, and providing material support for other terrorist groups, such as “distributing information about explosives.”
The DoJ has not revealed the names of the high-value targets found on the hit list in either case.
Lamb faces a total of eight federal charges, including one count of conspiracy, three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials, three counts of doxxing federal officials, and one count of threatening communications.
“Transnational criminal networks that promote extremist ideology and seek to commit targeted assassinations and cause terror obviously have no place in our society,” said Asst. Att. General John Eisenberg of the DoJ’s National Security Division.
If convicted, Lamb faces a maximum 85 years in federal prison, the DoJ said.
First surfacing in 2017, Terrorgram members believe that “violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate,” according to the DoJ.
Its Telegram channel urges followers to carry out attacks on perceived adversaries and providing members with “guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including on critical infrastructure and government officials,” US officials said about the neo-Nazi collective in January.
The terror group has been linked to a July 2024 planned attack on New Jersey energy facilities, an August 2024 knife attack at a mosque in Turkey, and an October 2022 shooting outside an LGBTQI+ bar in Slovakia.