Four US soldiers arrested in terror plot in GA
SGT K sends us a link to an article in Twin Cities.com which tells of four Fort Stewart soldiers who formed a militia group and committed murder to protect the identification of their organization that a Private funded from a $500,000 insurance policy benefit he got upon the death of his pregnant wife.
One of the Fort Stewart soldiers charged in the case, Army Pfc. Michael Burnett, also gave testimony that backed up many of the assertions made by prosecutors. The 26-year-old soldier pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter, illegal gang activity and other charges. He made a deal to cooperate with prosecutors in their case against the three other soldiers.
Prosecutors said the group called itself F.E.A.R., short for Forever Enduring Always Ready. Pauley said authorities don’t know how many members the
militia had.Burnett, 26, said he knew the group’s leaders from serving with them at Fort Stewart. He agreed to testify against fellow soldiers Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, identified by prosecutors as the militia’s founder and leader, Sgt. Anthony Peden and Pvt. Christopher Salmon.
All are charged by state authorities with malice murder, felony murder, criminal gang activity, aggravated assault and using a firearm while committing a felony.
Although I couldn’t find Burnett in AKO (I suspect that he was already out of the Army), I did find the other three and they were all 19-series MOS – which means they were in the armor career field – either tankers or armored scouts. Two were in the same Squadron (a cavalry battalion).
In a videotaped interview with military investigators, [ prosecutor Isabel Pauley] said, Aguigui called himself “the nicest cold-blooded murderer you will ever meet.” He used the Army to recruit militia members, who wore distinctive tattoos that resemble an anarchy symbol, she said. Prosecutors say they have no idea how many members belong to the group.
“All members of the group were on active-duty or were former members of the military,” Pauley said. “He targeted soldiers who were in trouble or disillusioned.”
Anarchists, huh? Well, that is kind of different to what the Department of Homeland Security and SPLC told us. I thought the militias were supposed to be right-wing extremists, like Timothy McVeigh.
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Just selfish on my part, but I hope they weren’t Cav Scouts, cause I was one. Unfortunately, there are all different sorts of demographics and personalities in the military, just like anywhere else. It only takes a few dumbasses to give the libs ammunition to blame it on being servicemen.
@1. Oh, they’ll have a field day with this! These gems were going to take control of the fort, poison apple crops, and mug every kid selling lemonade from there to California. Freakin’ loons. I always tilt my head and say “Huh?” whenever I hear about whack jobs like these and the Jim Jones Kool Aid Kids. Where in the world are these people hatched?
F.E.A.R.?
lol, getting creative there.
Guys, you should read up on Judge Tom Head’s REAL worries about what…is…to…come…..
My guess is the same paranoia hit these guys.
All four of them are in the same squadron. I say are, because they are still technically on our books! Hell one of them is in my troop! 3 of them are scouts, the 4th is commo. Rourk was in the same squadron.
Peden sounds familiar, I’ll check tomorrow to see out his arrest was recent or one out the older ones. The murders took place before I got here, and I can’t recall if Peden is familiar due to the news I read before or because he popped up on a report or two I generated in BDE schools. Gives me more ammo in my crusade against 6-8. (inside joke at brigade).
Pvt. Isaac Aguigui worked as a page at the 2008 RNC convention.
First Encounter Assault Recon was a great game for the Xbox, wonder if these guys played it as well.
I live down here and Ludowici is a strange place. Its always sounded like the name of some WWI massacre in the Ukraine. Not surprised that if there was a “militia” in the area it would be there. I had a few NCOs who live there and they were always telling me about strange neighbors, strange crimes. Driving through there gives me the creeps.
@8 beat me to it!
Here’s an interesting twist… http://tinyurl.com/8octp34
The DU and Huffington Post mobs are already somehow making anarchists synonymous with right wing conspirators and blaming Rush on AFN for this action.
They really do have one track minds. It really amazes me that a group of people that claim to be so analytical just make up their own facts to meet the message they want to push. On DU there were 43 links to the bogus hate group article from a week ago to support their argument that this was another example of hate group infiltration in the military.
Daniel: MSU – a leftist tradition since Marx.
Daniel: Since when do they play AFN in Georgia? Their rational bogles the mind.
[…] to Belfast Telegraph, the four anarchists who happened to be in the military at Fort Stewart, GA who we wrote about last night, were also planning to assassinate the President and take over the government; Four US soldiers […]
“out” in my last post should read “of”. Anyway, Peden was arrested last year. The name is familiar because he is always on my NCOES backlog. Guess he’ll be on it for a while, at least until the eventual demotion to PVT and decades of confinement.
Does the Army condone you using AKO for personal searches giving out personal information?
[…] off every time I use his links without mentioning his name sent us a link to the continuing saga of the big dimwitted plot to help an Army private take over the world from Fort Stewart, GA. It seems they’ve indicted five more wantwits; [District Attorney Tom] […]