Extremists re-emerging after 9/11 hiatus

Skinheads, neo-Nazis, white separatists and other extremist right-wing groups are stepping up grass-roots organizing from the rural West to suburban New Jersey, say experts who track such groups. Radical right-wing activity slowed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as internal disagreements erupted over the merits of the attacks and leaders of several organizations died or went to jail, several authorities said. But the groups are becoming more active — distributing leaflets in neighborhoods, holding public rallies, starting Web sites and reaching out to like-minded activists overseas. (...) Don Black, a former Alabama Ku Klux Klan leader, said white separatists are seeing more Internet activity turn into "real-world activism."