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Should we jump the gun and blame it on Muslims?

July 28, 2011

3 soldiers arrested near Fort Hood in connection with possible attack (Updated)

Rick Moran
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One soldier was arrested near the base, and two others were arrested after weapons and explosives were found.

Details are sketchy from Fox: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/28/ex ... n-ft-hood/

At least one U.S. military serviceman has been arrested after raising concerns over another possible attack on Fort Hood, Fox News has learned exclusively.

According to an Army source, one AWOL soldier is in the custody of the Killeen Police Department near Fort Hood. He was not captured on base. According to another source, two other U.S. soldiers were also arrested earlier today after authorities recovered weapons and explosives.

Fox News has obtained the names of the three suspects, but is currently withholding that information. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/28/ex ... n-ft-hood/

Sources say the AWOL soldier in custody is from Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

It's unclear if any possible attack was merely aspirational in nature.

Should we jump the gun and blame it on Muslims? It might be fun if only to watch all the exploding heads on the left if we did.

We'll probably update this post later in the day when more info becomes available.

UPDATE:

Fox has additional information on the arrest, including the name of one of the individuals who will probably be charged:

Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo, an AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was arrested by the Killeen Police Department near Fort Hood and remains in custody there. Authorities, however, will not say if Abdo is the one who raised security concerns.

Abdo was found with weapons, explosives and jihadist materials at the time of his arrest, a senior Army source confirms to Fox News. He was arrested at around 2 p.m. Wednesday after someone called authorities to report a suspicious individual.

Eric Vasys, a spokesman with the FBI's San Antonio Office, said authorities found firearms and bomb making components, which he described as smokeless gun powder, inside Abdo's motel room. Sources also say Abdo was attempting to make a purchase at Guns Galore in Killeen, the same ammunition store where Major Nidal Hasan purchased weapons that were allegedly used to gun down 13 people and wound 30 others on Nov. 5, 2009.

Law enforcement officials suspect Abdo was planning an attack in or around Ft. Hood, though they say the exact target is not clear.

Bob Jenkins, a Fort Campbell spokesman, told Fox News that Abdo was also being investigated for child pornography found on his government computer.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... ttack.html

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I thought Muslims where peacefull people I must be mistakened by the ones we are fighting overseas.

Naser Abdo, AWOL Soldier, Arrested With Weapons, Explosives Near Fort Hood, Police Allege

video's at the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/2 ... ml#s317847

First Posted: 7/28/11 12:45 PM ET
Updated: 7/28/11 05:02 PM ET
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Less than two years after an Army officer killed 13 people in a shooting attack on Fort Hood, police have arrested an AWOL soldier with weapons and explosives who reportedly confessed about his plans to attack the base in Killeen, Tex.

Officers from the Killeen Police Department apprehended a man alleged to have been in possession of firearms and bomb-making materials after authorities received a tip about a suspicious individual, Fox News reports.

The suspect -- identified in multiple media outlets as Pfc. Naser Abdo -- was assigned to a Kentucky base, but had reportedly gone absent without leave around July 4 after officials accused him of possessing child pornography on his government computer.

“Yesterday afternoon, at about 2 p.m., we arrested a Fort Campbell, Kentucky, AWOL solider who was wanted for child pornography," Killeen Police Department spokeswoman Carol Smith told The Huffington Post. "He was arrested at the America’s Best Value Inn, and that's all I can confirm for you right now. He is in our jail, but anything else I can't comment on."

FBI spokesman Erik Vasys claimed firearms and "items that could be identified as bomb-making components, including gunpowder" were discovered in the suspect's motel room, according to NBC DFW.

Investigators recovered 18 pounds of sugar, a pressure cooker and six pounds of smokeless gunpowder -- enough raw materials to create two bombs, sources told Fox News.

Abdo has admitted to authorities that was planning an attack on Fort Hood, according to an Army alert obtained by the Associated Press.

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Abdo joined the military in 2009 and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell. In 2010, he refused to deploy to Iraq on the grounds that it went against his Islamic faith. Abdo, who was 20 years old at the time, filed paperwork to be discharged as a conscientious objector.

“I knew that if I went to Afghanistan and, God forbid, something were to happen, that my faith was so weak that I wouldn't be admitted into heaven,â€

FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said there was no evidence to indicate that others were working with the suspect.

AWOL soldier held for alleged Fort Hood plot
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