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To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense: The Matthew E. O'Neil Story

To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense: The Matthew E. O'Neil Story

Auteur(s): Matthew E. O'Neil
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 Matthew E. O'Neil (born March 7, 1976 Newton, Massachusetts) is a former Senior Airman in the United States Air Force that incapacitated and killed a terrorist with a kung fu punch on April 8, 2000 at 2 PM MST and was cleared by Colorado Springs Police Department. The incident occurred at a Colorado Springs, Colorado business and was tied back to Operation Southern Watch. O'Neil was raised in Boston, Medfield, and Plymouth, Massachusetts. He attended Plymouth Public Schools from 1981 to 1994, finally graduating from Plymouth North High School ranked 47/217 in his high school class. O'Neil played youth baseball, soccer, and basketball. He then received superior instructions from top-flight boxing trainers while integrating weightlifting, running, and stretching into his boxing training. O'Neil competed as an amateur boxer in USA Boxing sanctioned matches while stationed on a U.S. Air Force military base in Colorado. The positive results of the matches were used as a catalyst to produce Plymouth's first NCAA Division I baseball scholarships. O'Neil coordinated with Plymouth North High School baseball coach Dwayne Follette to get the scholarships. That information is in the Plymouth Public Library book Everipedia Boxing Archives. O'Neil's incident with the terrorist is the records department of the Cape Cod Military Museum. The Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum has O'Neil's picture and information on display in the museum. His final amateur boxing record is 2 wins and 0 losses (2 KO's). He is of Irish-English ancestry.Matthew E. O'Neil Monde Politique Sciences politiques
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  • To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Acknowledgements)

    To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Acknowledgements)
    Nov 18 2025
    In the final episode O'Neil thanked U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Defense and Colorado Springs Police Department. He also thanked former Lockheed Martin employee Steve Griffin, former USA Boxing official Dickie Wood, former football coach Carl Freyermuth, baseball coach Dwayne Follette, his parents and his brother. O'Neil re-emphasized that he killed in self defense and that the Iraq War was justified. The Iraq War started in 2003 and ended in 2011. Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was executed by firing squad on December 30, 2006. O'Neil believes that the terrorist that he killed in Colorado Springs, Colorado was sponsored by Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

    Dickie Wood was the co-trainer of WBC heavyweight world boxing champion Oleg Maskaev from 2006 to 2008. O'Neil was a physical education student of Carl Freyermuth for four years at Plymouth North High School from 1990 to 1994. Freyermuth won the Eastern Massachusetts high school football state championship twice as a head coach in 1984 and 1989. Follette has coached Plymouth North High School's varsity baseball for over thirty years.

    O'Neil's incident with the terrorist is in many museums across New England, including Maine Military Museum and Learning Center, Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum, and Cape Cod Military Museum. His incident is the only cleared kill of a domestic terrorist in connection to Operation Southern Watch. The results of O'Neil's boxing matches were reported by journalist and writer John J. Raspanti in 2018. Raspanti wrote the article "You Only Live Once. Just Ask Matthew O'Neil" for the company Maxboxing. Raspanti co-authored the 2016 hardcover book Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy. The book Everipedia Boxing Archives has the results of O'Neil's boxing matches. That book is in the library of The International Boxing Hall Of Fame. Everipedia Boxing Archives is also located in the Moise Memorial Library (NM.) and Nevada Library Cooperative.
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  • To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum)

    To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum)
    Nov 7 2025
    The Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum opened in August 2004. Its average annual visitor rate is over 8,500 people, resulting in the museum being hailed as the "biggest little military museum in the country" by former mayor of New Bedford, Scott Lang. The museum is part of the The Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Historical Association, Inc. It is a not-for-profit organization committed to assisting in the restoration, preservation and perpetuation of Fort Rodman and its surroundings. Its President is Bill Niedzwiedz.

    Some of the exhibits that are housed in the museum are a statue made by a German POW who was held at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod as well as artifacts recovered from area waters. The museum has photos and biographies of every local serviceman that was killed in the Vietnam War, including uniforms and personal items from some of those veterans. The Vietnam War room has an authentic Viet Cong uniform. Many of its volunteers are veterans and retired military personnel who provide an interesting and informative tour of the museum. Many different types of military guns and rifles are on display. There is a Civil War room, a World War I room, and a World War II display. Its website is www.forttaber.org.

    In 2009 construction began on a 1,800 square-foot addition to the museum which was made possible by a starting donation from the Bank of America. The addition increased the available area for the museum to display donated artifacts from the Revolutionary War, Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq War), Operation Southern Watch and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan War). The museum is open Wednesday thru Sunday from 1:00PM to 4:00PM, and it is closed only on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and Easter. It is located at 1000C S Rodney French Boulevard in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As of November 2025 Matthew E. O'Neil's picture and information are on display in the museum.
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  • To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Cape Cod Military Museum)

    To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Cape Cod Military Museum)
    Jul 25 2025
    Cape Cod Military Museum is a museum that collects, preserves and displays military memorabilia, with an emphasis on educating young people and the community through displays, lectures and with oral histories. Its goal is to establish a permanent military library and archive. The museum's focus is military history concerning Southeastern Massachusetts. The museum was founded by Donald Ellis and Joe Yukna. The President of Cape Cod Military Museum is Joe Yukna. Yukna has done lectures for the museum, including lecturing Airmen on Camp Edwards. Its website is capecodmilitarymuseum.org. Yukna publishes a monthly bulletin disseminated via email giving subscribers periodic updates about the museum. It has had a display at Jonathan Bourne Historical Center. There is a long term plan for a permanent location for all of its artifacts, possibly at the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum in Bourne, Massachusetts. Cape Cod Military Museum is on Facebook. O'Neil's confirmed kill of the domestic terrorist is in the records department of the Cape Cod Military Museum. O'Neil is from Massachusetts. He was a member of the Air Force Martial Program on Schriever Air Force Base from 1997 to 2000. The base was renamed Schriever Space Force Base in 2021.
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