田纳西男子纵火民权中心并企图向真主党提供支持 被判17年半监禁
田纳西州——美国司法部 10 月 21 日宣布，28 岁的田纳西州塔拉霍马市男子 Regan Darby Prater 因纵火烧
毁一座民权运动渊源深厚的教育中心、并企图向外国恐怖组织提供物质支持，已于 10 月 20 日被判处 210 个月（17 年半）
联邦监禁、3 年监督释放，并需支付 128.9 万美元赔偿。Prater 已于 2026 年 4 月认罪。
据法庭文件，Prater 使用一枚所谓的"鞭炮炸弹"——即以一根普通鞭炮引燃的凝固汽油燃烧装置——摧毁
了位于田纳西州新市场市的 Highlander Center 所属设施。Highlander Center 是一家非营利研究与教育中
心。Prater 在认罪中承认，他从塔拉霍马的家中驾车前往该中心，点燃燃烧装置并烧毁了一栋建筑，最终
造成超过 120 万美元的损失。
司法部通稿称，在引爆炸弹前，Prater 曾在该中心停车场喷涂铁卫团的标志——铁卫团是上世纪 30 年代罗
马尼亚纳粹党的准军事分支；就在这起纵火案发生约两周前的新西兰基督城恐怖袭击中，枪手所用步枪上
就刻有同一标志。Prater 承认，他出于白人至上主义意识形态实施纵火，是对该中心基于信仰的教育理念
及其与民权运动的渊源的"回应"。
除纵火罪外，Prater 还承认，他曾于 2019 年企图向真主党（美国自 1997 年起将其认定为外国恐怖组织）
提供物质支持。具体而言，Prater 获取了一份据称载有 3.5 万多名"与以色列政府有关联"人员个人身份信息
的文件，并将该文件交给了一名他以为与真主党有关联的人，还附言"开始狩猎"（Start the hunt）。
本案由 FBI 纳什维尔分局主办、田纳西州调查局协办，田纳西东区联邦检察官办公室的助理检察官 Casey T.
Arrowood 与 Kyle J. Wilson 提起公诉，司法部民权司与国家安全司反恐部门的出庭律师参与办案。
司法部表示，对出于极端主义动机实施暴力破坏并试图支持外国恐怖组织者，将依法严惩。
Tennessee Man Sentenced to 17.5 Years for Arson of Civil Rights Center and Attempting to Aid Hezbollah
TENNESSEE — The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Oct. 21 that Regan Darby Prater, 28, of Tullahoma, Tennessee, was sentenced on Oct. 20 to 210 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,289,000 in restitution for arson and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Prater pleaded guilty to the charges in April 2026.
According to court documents, Prater used a so-called "sparkler bomb" — a napalm-based incendiary device ignited by a common sparkler — to destroy facilities maintained by the Highlander Center, a nonprofit research and education center in New Market, Tennessee. As part of his guilty plea, Prater admitted that he drove from his home in Tullahoma to the Highlander Center, ignited the device, and destroyed a building, ultimately causing over $1.2 million in damage.
Before detonating the bomb, Prater spray-painted the symbol of the Iron Guard, a 1930s-era paramilitary arm of the Romanian Nazi Party, in the Highlander Center parking lot, the Justice Department said. The same symbol was engraved on the rifle used in the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, about two weeks before the arson. Prater acknowledged that he committed the arson out of white-supremacist ideology and as a response to the Highlander Center's faith-based educational priorities and its association with the Civil Rights Movement.
In addition to arson, Prater admitted that in 2019 he attempted to provide material support to Hizballah, also known as Hezbollah, which the United States has recognized as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997. Specifically, he obtained a document purporting to contain personally identifiable information of more than 35,000 individuals purportedly affiliated with the government of Israel, and provided it to a person he believed to be associated with Hizballah, writing, among other things: "Start the hunt."
The case was investigated by the FBI's Nashville Field Office with assistance from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Casey T. Arrowood and Kyle J.
Wilson for the Eastern District of Tennessee, with trial attorneys from the Civil Rights Division and the National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section.
The Justice Department said it will hold accountable those who commit extremist-motivated violence and destruction and attempt to support foreign terrorist organizations.
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图片来源：图：Highlander Folk School历史纪念牌（资料图）。照片：Bryanmackinnon，CC BY-SA 4.0，经Wikimedia Commons。Photo: Historical marker for the Highlander Folk School (file photo). Photo: Bryanmackinnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
