The Anti-Defamation League urged the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation into a white supremacist group linked to last weekend’s shooting spree in Illinois and Indiana. In a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno, the ADL said the attack by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a member of the World Church of the Creator, was only the latest in a series of violent crimes linked to the group.
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