Website claims Calgary's Aryan Guard disbanded
Suspect wanted in bomb attack spotted south of Regina
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | 7:32 PM MT
CBC News
Kyle Robert McKee, 24, is wanted for attempted murder. (Calgary Police Service)A statement on the website of a Calgary white supremacist group linked to a recent homemade bomb attack says the group has disbanded due to "the rash actions of so few."
A 24-year-old man believed to be one of the founders of the Aryan Guard, Kyle Robert McKee, is currently wanted in connection with the homemade bomb attack. He was spotted south of Regina on Wednesday afternoon.
McKee faces charges of attempted murder, possessing, making or controlling explosives, and possessing a weapon or an imitation for a dangerous purpose. A teenager wanted on the same charges was arrested Monday night in Manitoba.
Police have said no one was harmed in the Saturday attack, which they described as a "personal vendetta between two individuals."
According to the statement on the group's website on Wednesday, a bombing attack launched against an ex-girlfriend of an associate member was the "boiling point" after six months of turmoil within the group.
"It's sad to say that in the final months the membership body dissolved, leaving only one founding member, one associate and a few new faces striving for membership in something that they could be proud of," the statement says.
Group enjoyed camping trips, karaoke night
The statement says the group was founded in 2006 to give "a unified voice to many average working-class Canadians who have been feeling the pinch of Third World immigration in their schools, hometowns and places of employment."
They held political events such a "White Pride March," as well as family camping trips, barbecues and karaoke night, the statement says.
On Saturday, a resident in a ground-floor apartment in the 5300 block of Rundlehorn Drive N.E. heard a noise outside and found two homemade bombs near his patio door, police said.
The man threw the devices into the parking lot, where they exploded. A vehicle was damaged, but no one was hurt.
Fugitive spotted in Saskatchewan
Calgary police said McKee and a 17-year-old male were parked in his truck on a gravel road south of Regina on Wednesday. An RCMP officer approached them for a traffic check and asked for ID.
McKee handed over his Alberta driver's licence, but when the officer returned to his vehicle to run the ID, the truck took off and was last seen southbound on Highway 6 from Regina, said police.
The truck is a red 1996 Dodge Dakota with Alberta licence plate TEB 713. The cab of the truck had luggage, while the back of the vehicle held several items which were covered by a large blue tarp.
Anti-racism activist relieved
Calgary's Bonnie Devine, who is involved in an anti-racism group, described the disbanding of the Aryan Guard as a small battle won in the larger war against racism.
"I do feel a little weight lifted off of the strain that I feel, but I also don't feel that it's going to end," she said.
Last month, a construction block was thrown through her family's front window and a swastika was spray-painted on their front door. At the time, she said, similar violence had happened in the past and her home was firebombed last year.
But police said they'll continue to keep an eye out.
"We don't believe that they're gone for good and so we just have to be aware that there may be something coming in its place," said Calgary police spokesman Kevin Brookwell.
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