U.S. Soldier Charged With Teaching Bomb-Making To Far-Right Extremists
September 23, 20196:46 PM ET
Hannah Allam
Army Spc. Jarrett William Smith, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, was charged Monday with distributing bomb-making information over social media.
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A 24-year-old soldier in Kansas who allegedly planned to fight with a violent far-right group in Ukraine was charged Monday with distributing bomb-making information over social media, according to the Justice Department.
The FBI says Army Spc. Jarrett William Smith, stationed at Fort Riley, came under investigation in March, when authorities learned he had given bomb-making lessons over Facebook. The FBI also says Smith was in talks about traveling to Ukraine, where he wanted to fight alongside the neo-Nazi paramilitary Azov Battalion.
"To fight is what I want to do," Smith wrote to an extremist associate, according to an exchange included in the complaint.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763544037/kansas-soldier-charged-with-teaching-bomb-making-to-far-right-extremists