Authorities busted a soldier based in Hawaii for pledging allegiance to the Islamic State and attempting to support them by providing military intelligence, a drone, military ordinance, and combat training.
Per the New York Post:
Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang is set to plead guilty as charged in an indictment last year, defense attorney Birney Bervar said. He is agreeing to a 25-year sentence for charges that could have put him in prison for life.
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When Kang met with the undercover agents he thought were from the Islamic State group at a home in Honolulu, he pledged allegiance to the group and kissed an Islamic State flag, according to court documents.
Kang was obsessed with videos depicting terrorism beheadings, suicide bombings and other violence, and he watched them in his bedroom for hours every day, a confidential informant told agents. The agents put a tracking device on the soldier’s car during an investigation that led to the indictment.
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 the case.
Kang began researching Islam in 2014 and couldn’t wait to make the pilgrimage to the Middle East to “join the cause” and was “only in the military for a paycheck,” according to the affidavit.
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