A former U.S. Army private was sentenced on Friday to 45 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last year to charges that he had shared sensitive information with a Satanist neo-Nazi group in a plot to kill members of his own unit while they were serving overseas, federal prosecutors said.

The former soldier, Ethan Phelan #Melzer, 24, of Louisville, Ky., was a member of the Order of the Nine Angles, or #09A, a “white #supremacist, neo-#Nazi, #Satanist, and #jihadist group that promotes extreme #violence to accelerate and cause the demise of Western civilization,” prosecutors wrote in court documents.

The group, which expresses admiration for both Hitler and Osama bin Laden, instructs its followers to fulfill “sinister” objectives, including “insight roles,” in which they attempt to infiltrate various organizations, including the military and street gangs, to gain training and experience in violent tactics, prosecutors said.

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