A man who claimed to be a multi-tour veteran of the war in Iraq and survivor of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon — a resume he used to oppose the war and condemn torture — has been exposed as a fraudster and mental patient.

The man, claiming to be named “Rick Duncan”, had claimed to serve three tours of duty in Iraq and be a survivor of the 9/11 attacks. He would go on to address Winter Soldier meetings, condemn torture at anti-war IVAW rallies, and generally garner sympathy for himself and his political positions. Well, Duncan — real name Richard Glen Strandlof — was arrested last evening.

The leader of a statewide veterans group who fought for homeless veterans in Colorado Springs was in the Denver County jail on Wednesday, unmasked as a former psychiatric patient who posed as a wounded Marine officer and 9/11 survivor.

Federal authorities are looking into whether Rick Duncan, whose real name is Richard Glen Strandlof, could have pilfered money he raised in the name of Colorado veterans, said Daniel Warvi of the Colorado Veterans Alliance (CVA), the group that Duncan founded.

“We were all taken aback,” Warvi said.

Strandlof, 31, who invented the name Duncan and claimed he was a former Marine captain and 1997 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, never served in the military and falsely claimed that he was in the Pentagon during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the group said.

Two members of CVA said the group became suspicious of the man they knew as Duncan after discovering inconsistencies in his personal story…The group said it found that Strandlof had been a patient in a mental hospital in Washoe County, Nev., at the time of the roadside bombing in Fallujah, Iraq, that he claimed left him severely wounded. CVA members contacted the FBI field office in Denver, which opened an investigation in early May and arrested him Tuesday night in downtown Denver on a traffic warrant originating in El Paso County.

According to Warvi, when an FBI agent asked whether he was Strandlof or Duncan, he responded “both,” then requested an attorney.

The man’s insane, which explains how he fit in so easily with the far-left anti-war movement. Michelle Malkin has videos of his speeches against the war and EITs. Before the exposure he had been widely quoted by media outlets who apparently take people at their word when they claim to have survived the 9/11 attacks and three tours of duty.

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