I have a BIG problem with the DHS and this admistrations' agenda - it's always a story to promote whatever it is THEY are "selling" and very few times does their reporting ever concern the truth.
You bring up a good point, though.
After doing a quick search via Google on the perp's full name, I read several articles. None of them made any mention as to whether this person was in the US Military.
However, a story from MSNBC tells of him fighting along side the terrorists against the Russians in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 80s. Was he covert, or just a punk? Did the terrorists turn him, or was he there willingly? I know the US supported the muslims fighting against the Soviets at that time. It appears this man was an anti-west pro-islam kinda guy from way back.
It said that the North Carolina residents had raised donations to support their training and had recruited and radicalized others -- "mostly young Muslims or converts to Islam, to believe . . . the idea that violent jihad was a personal obligation on the part of every good Muslim."It appears he's been a Muslim convert for decades and since he was trained rather than trained others in Afghanistan (as well as fought there) from 1989-1992, it would not have been as US military.Daniel Patrick Boyd once fought in Afghanistan and trained in guerrilla camps there and in Pakistan, the indictment said.
But, it added, he did so between 1989 and 1992 in an effort to fight the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Washington led and financed that campaign against its Cold War enemy with hundreds of millions of dollars in military and intelligence assistance, training and manpower.
The Associated Press reported that Boyd, a drywall installer in Willow Spring, N.C., and his brother had been convicted of bank robbery in Pakistan in 1991 and of carrying identification showing they belonged to the radical Afghan guerrilla group Hezb-i-Islami
To begin to know the real story, you got to go through all google & yahoo links for the story. And even then....