Many of its members have defected to even more militant fringe groups, such as Aryan Nation, which is based in Idaho.

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Ebel is not on the radar of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups, but the center rates the gang as one of the most vicious white supremacist groups operating in the nation's prisons, comparable to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.

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From Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmonov, with his celebration of Tajikistan's Aryan, pre-Islamic past, to Uzbekistan's adoption of Tamerlane as the nation's founder (even though he was not an Uzbek), these efforts have proved divisive.

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