SFC Kang.
Posted on 07/10/2017 9:03:35 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
HONOLULU — An active duty soldier based in Hawaii pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group, helped purchase a drone for it to use against American forces and said he wanted to use his rifle to "kill a bunch of people," according to an FBI affidavit.
Ikaika Kang, a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army, made an initial appearance Monday in federal court in Honolulu. He was arrested Saturday on terrorism charges.
Paul Delacourt, the FBI special agent in charge of the Hawaii bureau, said Kang gave military documents to people he believed would give them to Islamic State, but none of them got to the organization. He told reporters the FBI believes Kang was a lone actor and wasn't affiliated with anyone who poses a threat.
Kang's court-appointed defense attorney, Birney Bervar, said it appears his client may suffer from service-related mental health issues of which the government was aware but neglected to treat. Bervar declined to elaborate.
Continue reading the main story He said Kang was "a decorated veteran of two deployments" to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 26-page affidavit from FBI Special Agent Jimmy Chen details the yearlong investigation into the 34-year-old soldier, who who thought he was dealing with Islamic State agents but were undercover agents or sources instead.
Among the charges was that Kang copied military secret documents in 2015 and wanted to provide them to the organization, according to the affidavit. It also Kang says admitted that he voluntarily pledged loyalty to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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“Kang’s court-appointed defense attorney, Birney Bervar, said it appears his client may suffer from service-related mental health issues “
These lawyers need to be charged and jailed along with their clients.
SFC Kang.
Recent Muslim convert.
Need to have a watch list for those folks.
Treason is now just another psychiatric diagnosis??? Benedict Arnold deserves a full pardon and a posthumous restoration of his American citizenship! /s
“-———said it appears his client may suffer from service-related mental health issues of which the government was aware but neglected to treat. “
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So the government made him do it.
Uh,huh !/s
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threw away his career?
Hawaii sounds like a mess.
Maybe we should ask the Germans to bomb PH again.
Don’t you mean the Japanese?
He needs to suffer from lead poisoning. At the post at dawn, right between the lookers.
If found guilty, will he be shot?
Recent Muslim convert.
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That says it all. No other explanation necessary.
Don’t interrupt him...he’s on a roll.
#8 and #9. Re “The Germans should bomb Pearl Harbor again”.
And “Don’t you mean the Japanese”?
It was the Germans according to History by Blutarsky in “Animal House”, and as Tim Mathieson or Peter Rigert said (paraphrased), “Let him alone. He’s on a roll”.
Look, right now half of America doesn’t know who we were at war with in WW2 (choices included England, France, Spain etc) so even a “Germany bombing Pearl Harbor” is a helluva lot closer than what our undereducated college “retards” know, or don’t know.
And if there are any sensitive snowflakes out there reading this, one of the characters in “Animal House”, the tall blond guy, called his fellow fraternity brothers “A bunch of retards”.
Also, clothes are made with “fire retardant” materials.
“Retard”, from the French “retarde”, which means to “stop, impede, etc”.
THERE IS NO PC CRAP IN MY COMMENTS. I gave that up for Lent many years ago, and I’m Jewish.
I’ll bet you think the world is round.
A sergeant first class. You do not attain that rank without years of service. Hard to believe.
Don’t inflammable and flammable mean the same thing?
I made the mistake of correcting a professor using the word irregardless. While autistically correct, I have since given such words a wide berth.
Forget it,hes on a roll.
Pledging loyalty to a foreign government or terrorist group is not grounds for criminal charges. Publicly wishing to kill identified people on their their behalf is, however. The copying of sensitive material for distribution is also a federal crime considered within the confines of espionage. It wasn’t too long ago military members could be shot for this. Now it’s just jail time. And it should be. It falls under article 106a of the UCMJ.
rwood
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