C/O Futures Terrorism Research Note Series
Robert J. Bunker and Pamela Ligouri Bunker
12 November 2024
On 4 November 2024, Skyler Robert Philippi, aged 24, was arrested for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (18 U.S.C. § 2332a(a)) and attempting to destroy an energy facility (18 U.S.C. § 1366) in Tennessee in a neo-Nazi (Accelerationist) plot using a weaponized drone carrying an IED. No danger ever existed of the attack being successful given that Undercover Employees (UCEs; FBI affiliates) were handling Phillippi during the planning, procurement of materials, and preparation phases and transition to the attack, with inert IEDs being utilized. An Odinist magico- religious ritual—the Blót ritual—was performed to gain divine assistance for the upcoming attack.
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