A retired Army judge and prosecutor says he’s perplexed that the Army allowed Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang to remain a soldier even after he made pro-Islamic State group comments.
A retired Army judge and prosecutor says he’s perplexed that the Army allowed Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang to remain a soldier even after he made pro-Islamic State group comments.
But retired Col. Gregory Gross says the Army may have decided Kang was just mouthing off and wasn’t a threat. The Army later referred Kang’s case to the FBI after it appeared the soldier was being radicalized.
Gross served as the initial judge in the court martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 in a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009.
Gross said Tuesday he’s concerned by the similarities between Kang’s and Hasan’s cases.