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Authorities arrest Idaho man on charge of racist bombings by Susan Birnbaum NEW YORK (JTA)—A 22- year-old man known to have fre quented the neo-Nazi, white su premacist Aryan Nations compound near Hayden Lake, Idaho, was arrested Monday and charged in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on three counts of bombing and one count of attempted bombing. The man, Robert Fires, is the only person charged in connection with the Sept. 15 bombing of the home of Father Bill Wassmuth, a Roman Catholic priest, and the Sept. 29 bombings of a luggage store and the Federal Buildings in Coeur D’Alene, a resort town about seven miles from the headquarters of the Aryan Nations. Another bomb on the roof of the Armed Forces Recruiting Offices was found before it went off. A Koote nai County judge in Coeur d’Alene set bail at $500,000. Pires had been in FBI custody several days prior to his arrest after voluntarily offering to testify to the bombings in exchange for their protection. In addition, three oth ers associated with the group have been arrested on charges of coun terfeiting: Olive and Ed Hawley, a couple in their 20s, and David Dorr, also in his 20s, who was security chief for the Aryan Nations. The three were arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reportedly found weapons in Dorr’s home. Dorr’s wife Debbie is spokes person for the Aryan Nations. The 20-acre Aryan Nations com pound is owned by the Rev. Richard Butler, a man in his 70s who is a leader of the Aryan Nations and its religious arm, the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, which ascribes to the Christian Identity ideology that Anglo-Saxon whites are the true “chosen people” of Israel and that “Jews are imposters who are the offspring of Satan through the line of Cain.” Christian Identity adherents re cently picketed an exhibit of Ausch witz artifacts on display at the Uni ted Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Va., which received bomb threats as well. Federal officials are also investigating that incident. The latest series of bombings was described by JTA’s sources in Coeur d’Alene as a “second phase” of The Order, the violently racist, anti-Semitic group that arose from the Aryan Nations and whose “first phase” supposedly ended last win ter with the sentencing in February of 10 of its members to prison terms from 40-100 years for a long series of crimes that culminated in the murder of Jewish talk-show hose Alan Berg in Denver in June 1984. Accordingto JTA sources in the area, The Order has vowed to make the Pacific Northwest into an all-white bastion. Coeur d’Alene, with an approx imate population of 20,000, is a resort town that has been described as “one of the finest on earth,” “a perfect town”—very physically beautiful, dependent on tourism, silver mining and lumber. JTA sources said a hotel there that was purchased and developed for a very large sum got its developer on the Aryan Nations’ “Hit list” as “one of the 10 worst Jews in town.” He isn’t Jewish. Father Wassmuth reportedly also has been described as a Jew, a “rabbi in disguise.” There are very few Jews in Coeur d’Alene, most of them married to non-Jews, and there are no Jewish community buildings or synagogues. The nearest Jewish community is in Spokane, about 35 miles to the west. There are also very few blacks in the area. The region has been an attraction to these white suprema cist, violently anti-Semitic groups. Local folk and businessmen in Coeur d’Alene are angered by the racist threats that threaten the peace of their otherwise placid town, described as “a cancer that is eating up the area.” Their hatred of racism and attachment to the area spurred them to organize an anti-racist group, the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, headed by Father Wassmuth. 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