Why Do Recent Home-Grown Terrorists Have Military Ties?

Tim McVeigh

The Anthrax Mailer (used US military anthrax)

John Allen Muhamed (the DC Sniper)



Has their military background turned them into indiscriminate killers, or are they intelligence assets of some sort?

Other major recent domestic terrorists were the Unabomber and Eric Rudolph, the abortion clinic bomber. I don't know about their military background, although interestingly, their terrorism never generated the same level of attacks and the same type of headlines as the three listed at the top.