Website has links to Nazi supporters.

THE web site targeting Merseyside trade union leaders has links with Nazi and right-wing extremist groups.

The site was launched in 2001 and has more than 1,000 photographs of anti-racists across the country.

The hate-site purports to be antimarxist but has a direct links to fascist groups Order of the White Knights, the White Nationalist Party,Blood and Honour,Aryan Unity, Combat 18,Aryan Baby Drive and the National Front.

The Order of the White Knights invites people to make a pledge to white ancestral dominance, while the Combat 18 web site has extracts from Hitler's book Mein Kampf.

Anti-fascist organisation Searchlight believe the site was set up by members of the White Nationalist Party -the political wing of violent Nazi group Combat 18.

The name of the site comes from a new sheet distributed by Combat 18 in the early 1990s.

To prevent police action the site is hosted on three separate sites all based abroad.

The domains on all three sites are registered to a former BNP organiser who was jailed in 1999 for producing anti-Semiticmaterial.

DCI Kevin Sharpe,from Merseyside police's intelligence and security bureau, said: ``It is often very difficult to find out who is responsible for a website,and gathering the evidence to prosecute a particular person about the content or nature of a site is a difficulty that all police forces face across the world.

``It is unacceptable for anyone to feel personally threatened on Merseyside and I would urge anyone who is concerned about their own safety after viewing a web site to contact the police directly,and let us help deal with the problem.''