New Orleans, Las Vegas suspects are the latest in a long line of militant radicals

The two suspected terrorist attacks on New Year’s Day were both allegedly carried out by former members of the US military, raising questions about how those with access to sensitive information and the country’s most advanced weaponry could be infiltrated by extremists.

Early Wednesday morning, Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar allegedly drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people. He was an Army sergeant, with a deployment to Afghanistan under his belt.

Hours later, a Tesla Cybertruck burst into flames outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel — an alleged terrorist plot linked to Army Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, who allegedly carried out the attack that resulted in his death while on authorized leave. He was a member of the elite Green Beret unit.

From 1990 to 2022, 170 people with US military backgrounds planned 144 unique terrorist attacks in the United States – 25% of all people planning mass murder crimes during this period, according to a study by the National Consortium for the The Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

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Here’s a look back at some of the military extremists who have attacked US soil in the 21st century:

2009: Psychiatrist Nidal Hassan kills 13

In 2009, former Army Chief of Staff Nidal Hassan killed 13 people in a shooting at Fort Hood Army in Texas. The Islamic extremist and former military psychiatrist had spoken out against the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Retired Colonel Terry Lee, who served with Hassan, told Fox News that the Army chief would make “extraordinary” statements such as, “Muslims must stand up and fight the oppressor,” referring to US forces.

Hassan reportedly shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” when he opened fire, 13 people were killed and 30 injured in the worst shooting incident at a US military base.

Hassan confessed to the murder in court and is now on death row.

2021: Private Army officer Cole James Bridges tries to provide information to ISIS

In 2021, Army soldier Bridges, 24, was arrested for plotting to blow up the 9/11 memorial in New York and attempting to assist ISIS in killing US soldiers.

Now serving 14 years in prison, Bridges was caught when he began communicating with an undercover FBI agent he believed to be an ISIS sympathizer when he contacted ISIS fighters in the Middle East.

2020: Private Army’s Ethan Melzer provides Intel to a neo-Nazi group

Melzer, 24, at the time of his conviction, is serving 45 years in prison for passing sensitive US military information to the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), an occult-based neo-Nazi and White Supremacist group, in an effort to help. a mass casualty attack on Melzer’s Army unit.

He was arrested in 2020 after joining the Army in 2018 to join its ranks and gain insight into his O9A mission. After being sent to guard a foreign, sensitive US military base, he shared information about the base with members of O9A and began calling for deadly attacks on his colleagues.

2014: Frazier Glenn Miller kills three outside Jewish institutions

Miller, who has been white his entire life, shot and killed three people, two outside a Jewish community center and one outside a Jewish retirement home, in Kansas in 2014.

Miller had previously spoken of intending to kill Jews, even though all of his victims were Christians.

He served in the Army for 20 years, serving two tours in the Vietnam War and 13 years as a member of the elite Green Berets. After leading a branch of the Ku Klux Klan, Miller had a history of run-ins with the law. He served three years in prison after being convicted in 1987 of conspiring to obtain stolen weapons and planning robbery and murder.

Miller died in prison.

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2014: Knife-wielding Navy vet Zale Thompson injured police officers

Thompson, a Navy veteran, carried out a Salafi-jihadist-inspired hatchet attack in Queens, New York in 2014, injuring four police officers. The attack was considered an act of terrorism as Thompson had recently converted to Islam. In the months leading up to the attack, he visited hundreds of websites linked to terrorist organizations. Thompson was automatically discharged from the Navy in 2003, after being arrested six times between 2002 and 2003 in domestic disputes.

He was shot dead by police at the scene in 2014.

2016: Afghanistan vet Micah Xavier Johnson kills five police officers

In 2016, Johnson ambushed police in Dallas, Texas, killing five and injuring nine others. The 25-year-old Afghanistan War veteran was angry about police shootings of black men. He made the attack at the end of a protest against the recent police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

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2020: Three veterans attempt to bomb a Forest Service building

Las Vegas authorities arrested Andrew Lynam, an Army reservist, along with Navy veteran Stephen T. Parshall and Air Force veteran William L. Loomis — all identified as Boogaloo Bois — on May 30, 2020, for plotting to bomb. bombed a US Forest Service building and a power plant to incite chaos during police protests after the killing of George Floyd.

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In total, 480 people with a military background were accused of ideologically-driven corruption charges from 2017 to 2023, and another 230 of them were arrested in connection with the Capitol violence of January 6, 2021.