FBI Foils Drone Attack Plot on Nashville Power Grid
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Skyler Philippi, a 24-year-old from Tennessee, was arrested for allegedly planning to attack a Nashville energy facility with a drone armed with explosives, motivated by white supremacist beliefs. The FBI had compromised his plot, and he faces federal charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted destruction of an energy facility. Philippi's plan was part of an "accelerationist ideology" aimed at societal collapse. He is set to appear in federal court on November 13.
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