Early Wednesday morning, Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar allegedly plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14. (FBI)
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Questions posed to the Department of Defense about its plans to identify and root out radicals by Fox News Digital went unanswered.
Here’s a look back at some other military radical extremists who have conducted attacks on U.S. soil in the 21st century:
In 2009, former Army Major Nidal Hassan killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood Army base in Texas. The Islamic extremist and former Army psychiatrist had spoken out about the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Retired Colonel Terry Lee, who worked with Hassan, told Fox News that the Army major would make "outlandish" statements like, "the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor," referring to U.S. troops.
Hassan reportedly shouted, "Allahu Akbar!" as he opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 30 others in the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. military base.
Hassan admitted to the killings in court and now sits on death row.
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Las Vegas authorities arrested Andrew Lynam, an Army reservist, alongside Navy veteran Stephen T. Parshall and Air Force veteran William L. Loomis — all self-identified Boogaloo Bois — on May 30, 2020, for conspiring to firebomb a U.S. Forest Service building and a power substation to sow chaos during a police protest after the killing of George Floyd.
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In total, 480 people with a military background were accused of ideologically driven extremist crimes from 2017 through 2023, some 230 of whom were arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
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