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A pair of alleged terrorist attacks on New Year’s Day were allegedly carried out by former U.S. service members, raising questions about how those with access to sensitive intelligence and the country’s most advanced weapons are swayed by radical beliefs.
Early Wednesday morning, Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar allegedly ran over a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people. He was a former Army sergeant, with a deployment to Afghanistan under his belt.
Hours later, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded in flames outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, an alleged terrorist plot linked to active duty. Army Sergeant Major. Matthew Livelsberger, who allegedly carried out the attack that led to his own death while on approved leave. He was a member of the elite Green Beret unit.
According to a study by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
Early Wednesday morning, Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar allegedly drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people. (FBI)
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Questions posed by Fox News Digital to the Department of Defense about its plans to identify and root out radicals went unanswered.
Here’s a look back at some others. military radical extremists who have carried out attacks on American soil in the 21st century:
2009: Army psychiatrist Nidal Hassan kills 13 people
In 2009, former Army Maj. Nidal Hassan killed 13 people in a mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. The Islamic extremist and former army psychiatrist spoke out about the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Retired Col. Terry Lee, who worked with Hassan, told Fox News that the Army major would make “outlandish” statements such as “Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor,” referring to U.S. troops.
Hassan reportedly shouted: “Allahu Akbar!” as he opened fire, killing 13 and wounding 30 others in the deadliest mass shooting on a US military base.
Hassan admitted the murders in court and He is now on death row.
2021: Army Private Cole James Bridges attempts to provide information to ISIS
In 2021, 24-year-old Army Private Bridges was arrested for conspiracy blow up the 9/11 memorial in New York and trying to help ISIS kill American soldiers.
Bridges, now serving 14 years in prison, was caught when he began communicating online with an undercover FBI agent who he believed was an ISIS supporter in contact with ISIS fighters in the Middle East.
2020: Army Private Ethan Melzer Provides Information to Neo-Nazi Group
Melzer, 24 years old at the time of his sentencing, serves 45 years in prison for sending sensitive US military information to the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), an occult-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist group, in an attempt to facilitate a mass casualty attack on Melzer’s army unit.
He was arrested in 2020 after joining the military in 2018 to infiltrate its ranks and obtain information about his work for O9A. After being sent to protect a remote and sensitive American military base overseas, he shared details about the site with members of the O9A and began calling for a deadly attack on his colleagues.
2014: Frazier Glenn Miller kills three people in front of Jewish centers
Miller, a lifelong white supremacist, shot and killed three people, two outside a Jewish community center and one outside a Jewish retirement home, in Kansas in 2014.
Miller had openly expressed his intention to kill Jews, although all of his victims were Christians.
He served in the military for 20 years, serving two tours of duty in the Vietnam War and 13 years as a member of the elite Green Berets. Having led a branch of the Ku Klux Klan, Miller had a history of run-ins with the law. He served three years in prison after being convicted in 1987 of conspiracy to acquire stolen military weapons and planning robberies and murder.
Miller has since died in prison.
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2014: Navy veteran Zale Thompson injures police officers with knife
Thompson, a Navy veteran, committed an ax attack of Salafist jihadist inspiration in Queens, New York, in 2014, injuring four police officers. The attack was considered an act of terrorism since Thompson was a recent Muslim convert. In the months before the attack, he visited hundreds of websites associated with terrorist organizations. Thompson was involuntarily discharged from the Navy in 2003 after being arrested six times between 2002 and 2003 in domestic disputes.
He was shot dead by police at the scene of the 2014 attack.
2016: Afghanistan war veteran Micah Xavier Johnson kills five police officers
In 2016, Johnson ambushed police officers in Dallas, Texaskilling five and wounding nine others. The 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghanistan War veteran was angry about police shootings of black men. He carried out the attack at the end of a protest against the recent murders committed by the police in Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Filando Castilla in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
Dallas mourns the murder of five police officers
2020: Three veterans attempt to bomb a Forest Service building
Las Vegas authorities arrested Andrew Lynam, an Army reservist, along with Navy veteran Stephen T. Parshall and Air Force veteran William L. Loomis, all self-identified as Boogaloo Bois, on May 30, 2020. , for plotting to firebomb a U.S. Forest Service building and an electrical substation to sow chaos during a police protest following the murder of George Floyd.
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In total, 480 people with military backgrounds were charged with ideologically motivated extremist crimes between 2017 and 2023, about 230 of whom were arrested in connection with the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
