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Old 04-30-2019, 01:46 PM
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Unhappy Kansas shootings add to concerns over ex-military and extremism in U.S., experts say

Kansas shootings add to concerns over ex-military and extremism in U.S., experts say
BY: JUDY L. THOMAS of Kansas City Star - 4-30-19
RE: https://www.kansascity.com/news/loca...229854289.html

The suspect in the shootings Monday of a central Kansas sheriff and undersheriff was a former Marine who kept an AK-47 machine gun under his bed and stored two dozen pipe bombs and other explosive materials on his property, federal court documents reveal.

David L. Madden, of Alden, Kansas, was found dead in the home of his father at 12:10 a.m. Tuesday after a 6 1/2–hour standoff with authorities. Madden’s father, Thomas Madden, of rural Raymond, Kansas, also was found shot to death in the home.

The harrowing event that put many rural Kansas communities on edge played out on the same day that federal authorities in California accused another American military veteran of plotting a terrorist attack in Southern California. And it came less than three months after prosecutors in Maryland accused a Coast Guard officer of being a “domestic terrorist” who was amassing an arsenal of weapons and drawing up a hit list of prominent Democrats and television journalists.

The mounting cases of violent acts and extremist plots involving veterans of the armed forces continue to raise concerns among those who monitor extremists, and some say the military isn’t doing enough to root them out.

“The Department of Defense is a very large organization with over a million people in it,” said Daryl Johnson, a former senior analyst with the Department of Homeland Security. “So a very small percentage of them are going to be reflective of society, and have some extremists in their ranks.

“But that equates to a few thousand people. And these are people with access to classified information, with special military training in weaponry and the arts of warfare, and some have combat experience. Even one is too much.”

A U.S. Marine Corps spokesman cautioned not to paint all veterans with a broad brush.

“These events are obviously very newsworthy because they don’t happen all the time,” said Capt. Joseph Butterfield. “The Marine Corps returns quality citizens back to the civilian world. That’s one of the things we aim to do. But I do think we have to be careful with connecting too much to a service being the reason why something took place or why somebody committed some terrible act.”

In the California case, authorities on Monday said they had foiled a domestic terrorism plot directed at “multiple targets,” including Huntington Beach, the port of Long Beach and the Santa Monica Pier.

Officials said the suspect, Mark Steven Domingo, 26, was seeking to avenge recent attacks against Muslims. Domingo also talked of committing an attack similar to the one in Las Vegas, and he also was targeting white nationalists, Jews, churches and military bases, according to documents filed Monday in federal court.

Domingo, a resident of Reseda, California, and a former U.S. Army infantryman with combat experience in Afghanistan, received what he believed to be a live bomb from an undercover FBI officer involved in a Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation, the Justice Department said. The “bomb” was actually inert. Prosecutors charged Domingo with providing and trying to provide material support to terrorists.

In February, Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, was ordered held without bond on drug and gun charges involving what federal prosecutors alleged was a domestic terrorism plot. Prosecutors said Hasson espoused white nationalist views and wrote about biological attacks. Court documents said agents found 15 guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his apartment in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Last week, a federal judge in Maryland created a public outcry when he said Hasson would be released from detention after his public defender argued that the government continued detention was unlawful. The judge said he still had “grave concerns” about Hasson’s alleged actions but that the government had not met a standard for continued detention.

The violence in Kansas began shortly after 5 p.m. Monday, when Rice County undersheriff Chad Murphy was shot four times — including once in the neck — within 30 seconds of pulling Madden over in a traffic stop just north of the Sterling, Kansas, city limits about 70 miles northwest of Wichita. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that a female and a child were with Madden in the vehicle at the time.

Madden then fled and drove to his residence in Alden, the KBI said, where he retrieved guns and ammunition. From there, the KBI said, he drove to the home of his father, 65-year-old Thomas Madden, in Raymond, Kansas, and fatally shot him. When Rice County Sheriff Bryant Evans arrived about 5:40 p.m., David Madden shot him in the leg then exchanged gunfire with other officers, according to the KBI.

The standoff with multiple law enforcement agencies ended when authorities found David Madden’s body about 12:10 a.m. The KBI said it is suspected that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Murphy was flown to a Wichita hospital and was in critical but stable condition Tuesday morning, the KBI said. Evans was treated for his injuries and released.

Federal court documents show that Madden was indicted April 23 in U.S. District Court of Kansas on one count of illegal possession of a machine gun.

The documents also says that Madden, 37, is a person of interest in the disappearance of Megan Foglesong, an Alden woman who was reported missing in November 2015. An affidavit filed in the case says a KBI special agent who was investigating Foglesong’s disappearance had contacted a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on several occasions to report that the KBI had received information that Madden was suspected to be involved with explosives or explosive materials.

On Feb. 22, 2017, the affidavit says, Madden led authorities on a high-speed chase that began in Ellinwood, Kansas, and went through Rice and Barton counties. Madden was arrested later that day after a standoff with law enforcement officers at his residence in Alden, Kansas.

A Feb. 25, 2017, search of Madden’s property yielded two wooden crates in an outbuilding which contained 24 metal pipe bombs, each wrapped with metal bailing wire and some also wrapped with black electrical tape, according to the affidavit. Searches the next day turned up 12 containers of smokeless powders and two live military ordnance projectiles.

Authorities conducted another search on March 9, 2017, and discovered an AK-47 machine gun under Madden’s bed. They also found a railroad torpedo, which is a regulated explosive item, and a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol.

A KBI agent interviewed Madden in the Rice County Jail on April 11, 2017, according to the affidavit. In the 34-minute interview, Madden “admitted to making and lighting off pipe bombs and said he had been doing this since he was a kid,” the document says.

“Mr. Madden admitted to finding the machine gun in Fallujah, Iraq when he was there fighting for the United States Marine Corps,” it says. “Mr. Madden admitted to bringing the machine gun back to the United States and to knowing it was a machine gun.”

Madden’s records released Tuesday by the Marine Corps do not indicate that he was ever deployed to Iraq. The records show that he served in the Marines from June 19, 2000, to April 15, 2004, attaining the rank of Private First Class, E-2 on Oct. 9, 2003. He was a light armored vehicle crewman, according to the records, and received a National Defense Service Medal, a decoration to recognize all military members who have served in active duty during a declared “national emergency.”

At a news conference Tuesday morning, KBI senior special agent Stephen Rosebrough said he did not have any information on why Madden was not still in jail on Monday. Kansas Department of Corrections records list his current status as “absconder” as of Feb. 11.

Rosebrough said authorities don’t know what may have motivated Madden to do what he did.

“We’ll never know what his true motive was now,” he said.

Johnson, who now runs an analytics firm that focuses on domestic extremism, said one of the reasons violent extremists are a growing concern in the military is because the policies to keep them out aren’t tough enough.

“They have a loophole that says you’ll be disciplined if you have an active membership in a white supremacist group,” he said. “But if you’re a militia member, you’re fine; if you’re a sovereign citizen, you’re fine. So you have to be a card-carrying member of the Nationalist Socialist Movement or attending a KKK rally to be disciplined.

“That loophole needs to be closed, because the vast majority of white supremacists or violent extremists are not active members of groups. If you support or embrace or go online or join a forum or whatever, there should be zero tolerance.”

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Personal note: We X-servicemen can't really explain why these events take place. We hope the VA can put a handle on this issue along with any other support groups relating to these events. I must state not all these are X-military but of late it seems to be something that is triggering these events to occur. We (x-military folks) don't condon these acts nor are they acceptable in anyway other than in self-defense - but wow it is getting pretty bad and it's got to be stopped - somehow someway!

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Exclamation Suspect in Southern California bomb plot kicked out of Army

Suspect in Southern California bomb plot kicked out of Army
By: Brian Melley, VC Star & The Associated Press 4/20/19
RE: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/20...my/3630643002/

A terror plot by an Army veteran who converted to Islam and planned to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks was thwarted, federal prosecutors said Monday. (April 29) AP, AP

LOS ANGELES — An Army veteran accused of plotting terrorist attacks in Southern California was demoted and discharged from the military for a serious offense, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Mark Domingo violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice and was kicked out of the service before completing his enlistment contract, according to the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about personnel issues and provided the information only on condition of anonymity.

Officials would not provide details on his offense.

Domingo, 26, was arrested Friday as he planned to plant bombs before a scheduled white supremacist rally in Long Beach, authorities say. He was charged with providing material support to terrorists and held without bail.

Domingo, a former combat infantryman, had recently converted to Islam and discussed several plots over the past two months to kill scores of people in Southern California in revenge for attacks on New Zealand mosques that killed 50 people last month, federal prosecutors said.

The terror plot was foiled by the FBI and police using an undercover officer and informant, who Domingo thought were his accomplices.

Military records show Domingo served about 16 months in the Army, including a four-month stint in Afghanistan in fall 2012. He left with a rank of private, the lowest possible grade.

An Army photo of Domingo in Afghanistan in November 2012 identified him as private first class, which is two steps above his discharge ranking.

Domingo was given a general discharge, which is an administrative action a step below an honorable discharge, the official said.

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Yeow - again we have another issue which seems ongoing - in house terrorism seems rampid of late and I don't have a clue why our own folks are now likely to turn on US Citizens. Now this guy may have been a former immigrant early on and is reacting to the issues at the border - or its because he got the boot from the military - but again what a mind set to consider such a terrible threat to innocent American personal.

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