UPDATE: His sister says that while their family is Muslim, al-Kazahg is a convert to Christianity. This may be true, but his actions certainly betray at least a cultural affinity with jihadis.
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To have questioned Ali Al-Kazahg about his views of Islam and jihad when he first tried to join the Marines would have been “Islamophobic.” It is also likely that he will soon be declared “mentally ill.” Inquiries into the possibility that he did have a religious motive for this turn toward violence will be dismissed as “bigoted.”
“Heavily armed Nebraska Marine arrested trying to enter Offutt on May 31,” by Steve Liewer, Omaha World-Herald, June 15, 2019 (thanks to M.):
An off-duty Marine from Nebraska was arrested at Offutt Air Force Base two weeks ago after he tried to enter the base with two semi-automatic rifles, a pistol, a silencer, a bump stock, a vest with body armor and a case of ammunition.
Pfc. Ali Al-Kazahg, 22, of Milford, is in custody at Marine Corps Base Hawaii near Honolulu, a Marine spokesman said. Al-Kazahg, a landing support specialist at the Hawaii base, has not been charged. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating.
It is illegal to carry weapons at Offutt, aside from authorized members of security forces and certain military retirees. It’s not clear to base authorities whether Al-Kazahg intended to use the weapons to harm people at Offutt, said Lt. Col. William Smith, commander of the 55th Security Forces Squadron.
Al-Kazahg — who was home in Nebraska on leave — was stopped in a pickup truck May 31 at Offutt’s StratCom gate after security guards there saw his name on a law enforcement watchlist of people judged capable of doing harm. A “be on the lookout” bulletin had been circulated across Nebraska a week earlier by a coalition of federal, state and local agencies tasked with monitoring security threats.
The bulletin, issued May 24 by the Nebraska Information and Analysis Center and later obtained by The World-Herald, said Al-Kazahg told another Marine that he would “shoot up the battalion, starting at the barracks,” if he were disciplined for certain misconduct. According to the bulletin, he also mentioned specific Marines he wanted to target.
The bulletin quoted NCIS as reporting that Al-Kazahg had previously made “suspicious statements” and been reported for “suspicious activity.” It said he had previously “shown various people large amounts of cash” and an online order he had placed for body armor, magazines, weapons parts, holsters and medical supplies, all to be shipped to a Nebraska address.
The bulletin also cited a caution about Al-Kazahg issued by the Lincoln Police Department in 2016 (before he enlisted in the Marine Corps) alleging that he was “dangerous, has an infatuation with guns and violent acts, and has a dislike for law enforcement.”…
Al-Kazahg’s public social media posts indicate no obvious signs of anger or discontent. There are no mentions of politics or religion….
keya says
Muslim marine is an oxymoron
Nautikos says
Indeed! But those who permitted him to join are moronic oxen…
Jennifer says
I don’t understand why they let Muslims in any position requires the safety of the country don’t Trust Muslims their loyalty to their religion not the country.
CRUSADER says
Been this way ever since Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR infiltrated government posts and bureaucracy. See what Phil “See Something, Say Nothing” Haney as to tell….
Phil Haney – The “Great Purge” of Counter-Terror Experts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rtsm8nsVMI
J D S says
Of course it won’t happen but any Muslim wanting go enter the armed forces or law enforcement should have to take a lie rector test with questions being asked that would show anything that would place him in a “risk” situation..oh the islamophobic….
Our so called leaders must SOON admit to themselves and their constituents that Islam is not compatible with our freedoms, established by our founders, and then do something about it. If they don’t there will be no chance for any return yo the America we love.
Jed says
My father was in the Army and my brother was in the Corps.
Rivarys are natural. But this time, a soldier was actually better at something than a Marine… Being a murderous traitor #Nadal. Both ought to be swiftly, permanently relieved of duty.
gravenimage says
Yes, Jed–but this obviously has nothing to do, as you note, with benign rivalries between the branches of service.
Emilie Green says
Muslim Marine is as duplicitous as Muslim American. Neither exists in real life.
Tony Naim says
Political Islam: The one and only religious dogma that preaches violence.
SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK.
“Robert the Lionheart”
Keep on drilling your message, one day America
WILL RISE to meet that challenge.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Fred says
If he is on a watch list why is he still a marine? What is an “off duty” matine?
James Lincoln says
Fred,
A United States Marine serving on active duty is never totally off-duty.
They are always subject to recall.
H Smith says
While that is true, they still considers time after your shift and time on leave, off-duty. Otherwise, you have a hard time taking leave, because you have to be off-duty.
smooth lee says
“It is also likely that he will soon be declared “mentally ill.” ”
If stupid can be considered a mental illness, his openly talking all that violence-oriented shit, then he certainly is ill; irreparably so.
Angemon says
Yeah, just because he said he would, and he acted accordingly, doesn’t mean he was going to!
smooth lee says
The dude was habitually a blatantly walking, blatantly talking neon-glow red flag; and, the fact he’s a Muslim: It’s as easy as calculating 1+1 = Imminent deadly threat.
kangi_yotaka says
I can see why there’s some question – he threatened to shoot up his own battalion, starting with the barracks, which must perforce be in Hawaii. He said this in regards to some misconduct – i.e., he’s angry with his chain of command and/or other Marines in his unit.
Going to an Air Force installation in Nebraska, where there are neither barracks (they’re “dorms” to the Air Force) or battalions (the Air Force has many echelons, but “battalions” don’t exist), where no one has had anything to do with his misconduct, is not exactly the flaming red flag some readers think it is.
Yes, it’s obvious he was up to no good; yes, I wonder why he was allowed to leave his base in Hawaii if he was known to have made threats; yes, he almost certainly had nefarious purposes on Offutt, and yes, Islam likely had quite a lot to do with this.
That said, he said he would “shoot up the battalion,” not “shoot up some random military installation somewhere.” If a disgruntled Sears employee is arrested at a Walgreens’ across the country with guns, one doesn’t leap to the idea that the employee had threatened to shoot up a Walgreens’ across the country.
Of course, if you want to get very far in your shooting spree, attacking Marines is a bad way to go about it.
gravenimage says
He clearly wants to murder US military personnel.
Cornie says
Do you really think he would need to come all the way home to do that when he had easy access to his chain of command? Youre dumb.
Angemon says
“According to the bulletin, he also mentioned specific Marines he wanted to target.“
CRUSADER says
Hawaii-based soldier who supported ISIS to plead guilty in terrorism case
August 21, 2018
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/08/22/hawaii-based-soldier-who-supported-isis-to-plead-guilty-in-terrorism-case/
In this image taken from FBI video and provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Hawaii on July 13, 2017, Army Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang holds an Islamic State group flag after allegedly pledging allegiance to the group at a house in Honolulu on July 8. (FBI/U.S Attorney’s Office, District of Hawaii via AP)
HONOLULU — A Hawaii-based Army soldier accused of attempting to support the Islamic State group will plead guilty, one of his lawyers told The Associated Press.
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.
Unsealed documents show Hawaii-based soldier obsessed with terrorism videos —-
The NCO pleaded not guilty to charges that he supports the Islamic State.
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, 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.
Paul J says
Service-related mental health issues? I think the lawyer mean’t to say “islam-related mental health issues”. Blaming the marines is just an attempt to get compo.
Michael Degner says
Becoming a Islamic terrorist is not a mental illness, it is conspiracy to hurt other religions, the US and our allies. You can’t take a pill and stop having radically religious views.
owensgate says
If we do not start introducing some heavily enthusiastic bigotry into this conflict with islam, we are going to wake up one morning and find it is over, and we lost. As we would have had we enlisted “Hitler Youth” groupies and expected them to fight Hitler. There is stupidity, and there is stupidity on steroids. It is OK to be a bigot.
Antiislamicman says
Don’t give guns to Muslims you’re just asking for trouble
mortimer says
Ali Al-Kazahg was motivated by Islam’s authentic, ‘ESSENTIAL’ teachings of jihad (the method of Mohammed) and of Al Walaa wal Baraa (the motive of Islam).
Islam’s motive is hatred directed against the dirty kufaar … ‘for the sake of Allah’. The method of Mohammed is jihad … the various ways Muslims express their HATRED and HOSTILITY against the dirty kufaar.
Ali Al-Kazahg understood the ‘essential’ requirement for him to hate kafirs and his ‘essential’ duty of expressing that hatred through jihad.
Without the understanding that Muslims are motivated by HATRED directed against kafirs, our political and military leaders are not able to resist and conquer Islamic terrorism.
Cornie says
No he wasnt. He was an idiot with a short temper who in and of himself, if you know him, proves the liberals argument that not everyone should have the right to access weapons
gravenimage says
Nebraska: Heavily armed Muslim Marine arrested trying to enter Air Force base, said he’d “shoot up the battalion”
…………………..
Another patriotic Muslim American…sarc/off
Terra Nova says
But a lot of people, mostly Muslims do not have the faintest idea how the Universe works. God is an enormous Energy who resides in every human being, that is why He knows everything you do, think, everything. It is the Big Love Energy, He has given you everything to know how to behave and the purpose of this planet, is LEARNING that you do not lie, rape kill, decapitate and follow forever the money by your greed,
and that you are NOT superior to any other human, and You will learn that you love your neighbour, no matter what race or colour, not to conquer, etc.
God is not a human, it is an enormous Energy, you can not approach God, the Energy would burn you. He does not think like a human, because He knows everything, and He is everything at the same time>He has everything in Him too, as He created us in .his image. And after thousands or million of years we will be the same as Him, and then that is only the beginning. Then we will be able to create our own planets, but not before we have gone trough the whole process. We have been busy with this process for many, many thousands of years, but we don’t seem able to do it and go higher, quite some people have gone higher, but not enough. Love is still the highest in all people, but it surely does not look that way now.
But I know how the Universe works. God says: If you don’t put order in your own house, nature will do it for you” So we are better of to put order into our own house(own life”, because we will carry the consequences.
And I know that is so true, by my own long life experiences and schooling. God is forgiving, soft as butter but when necessary, hard as steel and above all: “THE LOVE”The Love is so big, it is even hard to take in, and every time I have to cry, The Love of God is not human almost, it is so enormous, but it shows you the horrible things that people do to each other , you can not believe it. I had the honour to experience it all!And not always to my pleasure, but you always have to keep the love for other people and nowadays, it is very hard to have that love, because we are getting to the point that everything will go to a point, where all the old systems have to go, where we will get people in governments who will live from their hearts instead of their heads and be greedy. And those times will not be pleasant in one way, but when we pass that point a New World will start to exist, and you can choose still as there will always be free will, and if you don’t, you will be taken to another planet or will be no more, till a later time. You live, you die, you will be born again, and again, I have travelled planetair and have visited many planets, higher and lower than ours, the higher ones have gone trough the same ordeal as we are going now and still a long time.
But you all can experience God, like I do, you can ask God to tell you everything you need to know and if you really want that sincerely, He will answer. Everything is only to be known by EXPERIENCE’! Nobody can know by books, by stories from others. Real prophets, they know how it works, they can help you, and you
only can do it for yourself. Don’t take my epistel, find out for yourselves, because all we got from God is so amazing. He gave us everything in food, plants that can cure every sickness, but by the enormous greediness of the human, a lot of it has been destroyed, and that is not God’s doing, NO, 100% OURS, and if you start to think different from your heart, your life will change, slowly, but surely.
I would be extremely happy, if one human being would believe this, because one person can already make a difference. We are spiritual stronger then any atom bomb, because nature directs itself to the human behaviour. Love to all of you ! But the path is not easy. You have to conquer yourself, your own life, and think of every act and behaving. Not conquering others and conquering yourself is the most difficult thing.
Jan Disher says
Never, ever let mohammedans in the armed forces, government positions, police, etc, etc. Have we learned nothing from history?
nomuslimusa says
+1
Debi Brand says
Robert, are you, like, sure, like, that, like, Ali Al-Kazahg, is Muslim, like … the article does not state that of him…
What are you, like, basing that (leap to unjust, very likely, bigoted oriented judgement) on… ?
Paul J says
Are you like stupid or something like that, like?
Angemon says
I think Debi was being facetious. Sarcasm can be hard to express on text.
Debi Brand says
“Are you like stupid or something like that, like?”
Uh …, like, not that I know of, like … or something …
gravenimage says
Paul, Debi Brand is a staunch Anti-Jihadist and long term poster here. This is was sarcasm.
Cornie says
I knew this guy personally before and while he was in the military. He was not a muslim, he identified as an arab. He was obsessed with the american constitution and upholding it and his rights. He was also incredibly short tempered and had a “zero tolerance for stupidity” policy. Am i shocked he made the threats? No. But he is also dumb enough to not see anything wrong with trying to go on base with guns in his truck. He is genuinely that dumb.
Thompson says
Oof, coming from someone who personally knows him and trained with him to become a marine, a lot of these comments hurt. I can for one say that yes, all this information they’ve pieced together makes him out to be a terrorist of sorts but he is far from. He doesn’t even follow the Muslim religion! He identifies as Arab because he was born there but he is about as American as it gets. He had 2 weeks off and was home visiting. He was traveling the 45 min to OAB to use their workout facility. Should he have had his car full of his guns? He’s a gun buff but, no. He shouldn’t have. Stupid move. He’s a kid who jokingly said something very stupid and also wasn’t thinking when he entered the air base. He made mistakes and now he’s having to deal with those mistakes. I know talking about shooting up a barracks is nothing to joke about but that’s millennials for you.
marc says
I am releasing this comment from moderation, with the notice that this user is not using their real name from what I can tell, I asm highly sceptical, any statements they make can not be trusted as no sources supplied.