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Home Front: WoT
Soldier in Hawaii arrested with ties to ISIS 'was obsessed with watching videos of terrorism beheadings and suicide bombings'
2018-01-25
[DailyMail]
  • Sgt 1st Class Ikaika Kang
    who is also in our archives as Ikaika Erik Kang
    was arrested in July for attempting to support the ISIS

  • New unsealed documents released on Monday have exposed his fixation with the terrorist group

  • The indictment and the FBI affidavit filed previously state that Kang met with undercover agents he believed were part of the Islamic State group

  • He provided them with classified military information, a drone, military equipment and training in combat fighting

  • Kang was obsessed with watching videos depicting terrorism beheadings, suicide bombings and other violence

  • He began researching the Muslim religion in 2014, couldn't wait to move to the Middle East to 'join the cause'

  • Defense attorney Birney Bervar said Kang may suffer from service-related mental health issues that the government was aware of but neglected to treat

  • His trial is scheduled for later this year
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  His service record indicates he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 and Iraq in 2011 and was highly decorated, CBS News' Paula Reid reports. According to CBS affiliate KGMB, Kang was awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

Eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-01-25 16:42  

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