The Omaha World-Herald reports that Pfc. Ali Al-Kazahg is charged with carrying a concealed weapon, communicating threats and other crimes. It's unclear whether he has an attorney. A Marine Corps spokesman says the 22-year-old Al-Kazahg is in custody in Hawaii, where he's assigned to the 3rd Marine Logistics Group.
Authorities say Al-Kazahg was on leave when he was stopped at an Offutt Air Force Base gate of May 31. Guards had spotted his name on a law enforcement notice of people considered capable of doing harm. The notice says he told another Marine that he would "shoot up" his battalion if he were disciplined for misconduct.
| Back in June the Omaha World-Herald reported: |
Al-Kazahg ‐ who was home in Nebraska on leave ‐ was stopped in a pickup truck May 31 at Offutt’s StratCom gate after security guards there saw his name on a law enforcement watchlist of people judged capable of doing harm. A "be on the lookout" bulletin had been circulated across Nebraska a week earlier by a coalition of federal, state and local agencies tasked with monitoring security threats.
The bulletin quoted NCIS as reporting that al-Kazahg had previously made "suspicious statements" and been reported for "suspicious activity." It said he had previously "shown various people large amounts of cash" and an online order he had placed for body armor, magazines, weapons parts, holsters and medical supplies, all to be shipped to a Nebraska address.
The bulletin also cited a caution about al-Kazahg issued by the Lincoln Police Department in 2016 (before he enlisted in the Marine Corps) alleging that he was "dangerous, has an infatuation with guns and violent acts, and has a dislike for law enforcement."
Al-Kazahg had made no threats specific to Nebraska, the bulletin said.
Public records indicate that al-Kazahg lived in Milford, about 17 miles west of Lincoln. In 2017, he served on the Nebraska Children’s Commission’s Bridge to Independence Advisory Committee, which advises the state on policies to help kids in foster care transition to adulthood.
He joined the Marines on Sept. 11, 2017. After boot camp in San Diego and additional training at Camp Pendleton in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, he was assigned to Marine Corps Base Hawaii in August 2018. He is a member of the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, and his enlistment is up in 2021.
Al-Kazahg’s public social media posts indicate no obvious signs of anger or discontent. There are no mentions of politics or religion.
He has never posted on a four-year-old Twitter account in his name, which has just 10 followers
All NCIS and FBI
His Facebook and Instagram pages are private, though a cached copy of his Instagram page shows a number of photos of him posing with military weapons. His images also seem to convey pride in the Marines, his own personal fitness and his Husker heritage.
| And a few days later the Omaha World-Herald reported his sister said: |
Al-kazahy, of Lincoln, told The World-Herald that her brother has been her best friend and protector as they navigated the Nebraska foster care system and launched their respective careers.
They have different last names, she said, because the spelling is inaccurate on her brother’s birth certificate.
Al-kazahy said that she and her brother are two of seven siblings born to Iraqi refugees. She and al-Kazahg were together for awhile in foster care, when they were about 5 and 7 years old, before they were split up in different homes.
Al-kazahy describes their parents as loving. Their mother, who al-kazahy said is deaf, remains in Nebraska and their father died about four years ago.
Her brother’s friend, Trevor Reilly described his friend as a little cocky, enthusiastic, competitive, not a person to back down. Reilly said he believed that al-Kazahg was getting harassed and taunted by people he worked with, in part because they assumed he was Moslem. (His sister said he is Christian.)
| This looks like a more complicated situation than it originally appeared. May the truth quickly come out, the guilty punished and the innocent set free. |