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- A former US soldier, Craig Lang, is being held in Ukraine on suspicion of killing a Florida couple in 2018, Radio Free Europe reports.
- Lang and his accomplice planned to steal from the couple and use the money to travel to Venezuela to fight with rebels there. They had previously fought with an ultranationalist militant group in Ukraine together.
- Lang is also linked to another former soldier who was charged with sharing bomb-making instructions over social media.
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Former US Army soldier Craig Lang is being held in Ukraine on suspicion of killing a Florida couple in 2018, whom he and an accomplice are accused of stealing from so they could travel to "participate in an armed conflict against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," Radio Free Europe reports.
Lang, 29, was enlisted in the Army from 2008 to 2014, after which he fought with ultranationalist Ukrainian paramilitary group Right Sector before attempting to fight Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda linked extremist group in East Africa. Lang and his accomplice, Alex Zwiefelhofer, who also fought with Right Sector were deported from Kenya as they tried to enter South Sudan in 2017. Zweifelhofer enlisted in the Army in 2015, went AWOL in 2016, and was discharged in 2018, according to a criminal complaint from the US district court in Florida.
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