Role of US servicemen in acts of extremist violence under scrutiny

Active duty servicemen and veterans statistically most likely demographic to be mass casualty offender'

After the two men who carried out stateside terror attacks on New Year's Day were revealed as veterans of the war on terror, public scrutiny about the role of American servicemen in such incidents came into focus.

The New Orleans attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, was a 13-year veteran of the US army, while the Las Vegas suicide bomber was an active-duty Green Beret.