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'''Dennis Mahon''' (born ca. 1951) is the former Ku Klux Klan [[Imperial Wizard]]. Dennis Mahon has a twin brother, [[Daniel Mahon]], who is also involved in the [[White Fascist]] movement. Both grew-up on a farm in [[Illinois]].

In the 1970s the brothers joined [[David Duke]]'s [[Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1974)|Ku Klux Klan]] organization. In 1988 he broke with that group and started the [[Oklahoma White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]]. In September 1991 he traveled to Germany on a nine-day twenty-five city tour meeting German fascists and recuriting for the Klan.<ref>The Beast Reawalems, by [[Martin A. Lee]], page 335</ref> In 1992 Mahon quit the Klan and joined [[Tom Metzger]]'s [[White Aryan Resistance]].  

==Oklahoma City bombing==
In 1997 Dennis Mahon was accused by [[Timothy McVeigh]]’s attorney [[Stephen Jones]] of being a possible suspect in the [[Oklahoma City bombing]]. Jones later wrote a book, ''Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy'', implicating a broader plot in the bombing. Mahon is said to have ran a paramilitary training center in [[Elohim City]], an anti-government [[militia]] community in Oklahoma where it was claimed McVeigh visited. Mahon denied any involvement in the bombing.

==Mail bomb attack==
In 2012 Dennis Mahon was convicted of a mail bomb attack which occured February 21, 2004 at the Arizona Office of Diversity and Dialogue in Phoenix injuring the agency’s director, a Black man, named Donald Logan. His twin brother, Daniel, was acquitted of all charges.

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