terrorist groups
type: Concept
narrower: Aryan Republican Army

organizations
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Aryan Republican Army

terrorism in North America
type: Concept
narrower: Aryan Republican Army

Aryan Republican Army
type: Concept
definition: During the mid-1990s, the Aryan Republican Army (ARA), a six-member paramilitary cell, robbed 22 banks in the Midwest, intending to use the money to fund a white supremacist overthrow of the U.S. government. During the ARA's short life, authorities were unaware that the thieves who had committed a slew of small-scale bank robberies in Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, and other midwestern states had any motive higher than stealing money, nor had they ever heard of the small white supremacist cell called the Aryan Republican Army. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Aryan Republican Army]
broader: terrorist groups
broader: terrorism in North America