Hawaii-based soldier who supported ISIS to plead guilty in terrorism case
The Army Times reports a Hawaii-based Army soldier has been accused of attempting to support the Islamic State will plead guilty, one of his lawyers told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang has agreed to plead guilty, but Alexander Silvert, an assistant federal defender representing him, won’t say what charges he’ll be pleading to.
“We’ve agreed on a sentence,” Silvert said, declining to elaborate. He referred further questions to Kang’s other attorney, Birney Bervar, who couldn’t immediately be reached.
Court documents allege Kang provided classified military information to undercover agents whom he believed were part of the Islamic State group.
Kang is scheduled to withdraw his not guilty plea Thursday, court records show. The hearing was moved from the afternoon to the morning because of concerns about a hurricane headed for Hawaii, Silvert said.
A plea agreement hasn’t been filed in court yet.
A confidential informant told authorities Kang watched videos depicting beheadings and other violence in his room for hours every day, according to court documents.
Kang told the informant that if he became an Islamic State member, he would be a suicide bomber and attack Schofield Barracks, a sprawling Army base outside Honolulu, according to an affidavit filed in court.
Kang began researching the Muslim religion in 2014, couldn’t wait to move to the Middle East to “join the cause” and was “only in the military for a paycheck,” the informant said, according to the affidavit.
When Kang met with the undercover agents at a home in Honolulu, he pledged allegiance to the group and kissed an Islamic State flag, according to court documents.
Kang may suffer from service-related mental health issues that the government was aware of but neglected to treat, Bervar has said previously.
Kang has been detained without bail since his arrest last year. Kang is still in the Army, but his duty status is “confined,” said Lt. Col. Curt Kellogg, with the 25th Infantry Division.
“Service-related mental health issues.” The old PTSD Defense; good luck with that.
/sarc
Category: Isis
Leave him on bread and water as soon as his cell door is welded shut.
one loaf, one gallon…..for ETERNITY!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/11/536504937/u-s-soldier-arrested-accused-of-trying-to-provide-material-support-to-isis
Embedded in the above article is a 10 July 2017 “Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint” that goes into detail about SFC Ikaika Erik Kang.
At that time, SFC Kang was assigned to the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division at Wheeler Army Airfield in Oahu, Hawaii.
He was a 15Q, Air Traffic Control Operator.
Gives a whole new meaning to “Aloha Snackbar”….😎
Well, it looks like he’ll have a lot of time on his hands that he can devote to embracing the ways of “Al and Moe” while he’s in the federal poundhimintheass slammer.
would this be the home of the infamous “cockmeat sammich”? Did he also have to pledge to support “man love Thursday”?
Everyday is “Man-Love Thursday” at the BTJT Deli (Home of the WORLD FAMOUS cockmeat sammich and ghey whey shake).
Stop the f’n presses right now. According to the affidavit, this guy was “reprimanded” several times for threatening to kill or to hurt others and for arguing pro-ISIS positions while at work and on post. His security clearance was revoked but reinstated. This was over a period of five years! In 2016, the Army contacted the FBI about him. At some point a ‘civilian’ was responsible for Kang’s loss of his ATC license. There is more and it is all very, very ugly. Is this what Mattis had in mind when he recently advised to go tooth and nail after malignancies? It certainly appears that this Kang-ster was enabled amid egregious violations of conduct instead of being brought up on charges and shown the door.
That’s someone who should have been shown the door and a stockade long ago. How was he still an E-7?
I have no idea. This clown was not just a problem child. He was a budding terrorist. The mind boggles at the thought of what he could have accomplished as an ATC under the right circumstances.
shown the CELL DOOR!
Service-related mental issues? More likely they existed before he signed up.
Really, he was just looking for a cult to join, you know. Something that offered more than just daily drills and lectures about sexual harassment. There was that empty spot that needing filling. Some people turn to alcohol, others to slaughtering innocents. /sarc
The two are not mutually exclusive, Ex. Why, I remember…never mind.
Really, his service-related PTSD (caused by ISIS and their ilk, I’ll point out) drove him to the religion of peace and into the arms of ISIS? Right…
You know if you rotate the Isis flag 180 degrees it looks like two guys fucking goats under the moon.
I doubt that’s accidental…
Subliminal advertising?
It was supposed to be two guys fucking goats under the moon, but the flag maker screwed up.
A freakin’ E-7??? How’d he make it that far without . . . Oh, wait, never mind. Thanks, Obama.