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_Published 2017-07-11. An active duty soldier based in Hawaii pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group (ISIS), helped purchase a drone for it to use against American forces and said he wanted to use his rifle to "kill a bunch of people."_


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## Transcript

I'm here to report to you that on Saturday, July 8th, FBI Honolulu SWAT team arrested Ikaika Kang for material support to terrorism. Kang is 34- years- old. He's from Hawaii. He's a sergeant first class in the US Army, assigned to the 25th Infantry at Schofield Barracks. He was trained as an air traffic controller. And trained in combatics. He was arrested without incident. He had his initial appearance in court this afternoon and the complaint has been made public. The complaint alleges that the material support included providing military documents. Persons he believed would pass them to ISIS, being involved in the purchase of a drone with the intent that it would be provided to ISIS providing combatives training to an individual he believes was affiliated to ISIS.

In addition, Kang pledged bayat. That is, he made a loyalty pledge to ISIS. [ UNKNOWN ] was arrested by FBI SWAT. They said that probable cause the he committed materials support the terrorism. [ UNKNOWN ] sworn to [ UNKNOWN ]. And he because he had shown an increase on inclination to violence Probable cause arrest was made in the interest of public safety. We believe that King was a lone actor who was not affiliated with anyone else who poses a current threat to the state of Hawaii.

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