Posted on 11/13/2004 5:17:08 PM PST by yonif
STANWOOD, Wash. - A teenager accused of planning to supply a Somalian terrorist group with night vision goggles and bulletproof vests foreshadowed the charges in his high school yearbook with a note that mentions Somalia in his "plans for world supremacy."
Mark Robert Walker, 19, was arrested Nov. 6 in El Paso, Texas, and on Friday was charged with attempting or conspiring to contribute goods or services to a global terrorist organization. A more serious charge filed earlier was dropped.
Months earlier, Walker caused a stir when he left a cryptic note next to his senior portrait in the 2004 yearbook, writing that his "plans for world supremacy are in order. They entail taking over Somalia and working outward, but I should not divulge the exact details of my cunning strategy."
The entry also referred to Walker's "future heroic death" and offered a "death poem" with imagery of a grenade exploding and the phrase "all shall pass this world."
Officials at Stanwood High School, about 45 miles north of Seattle, began to investigate Walker's comments in June but stopped when they learned Walker and his family had moved to Rochester, N.Y. Superintendent Jean Shumate told the FBI about the yearbook entry after she learned of Walker's arrest.
Walker, who was arrested with $2,100 in cash, allegedly told federal officials he planned to buy night vision goggles and bulletproof vests and give the items to fighters with a terrorist group called Ittihad al Islamiya and other groups seeking an Islamic government in Somalia, according to court documents.
Walker had begun attending Wyoming Technical College in Laramie, Wyo. He apparently fled to the U.S.-Mexico border after his roommate told police he was using a computer to communicate with terrorist groups on the Internet.
Walker, who could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison if convicted, was being held without bond in El Paso. He was scheduled to attend a detention hearing Monday.
Another DU member on his way to where they belong.
bttt
What's up with the name Walker being identified with up and coming, American-bred terrorists?
Ten years???? Stretch this idiot's neck in public THEN let's see how many teenage Ratboy wannabees try to funnel weapons to terrorists!
Ten lousy years for TREASON?
What do you want to bet in his mind he was thinking..." chicks will dig me being a terrorist..." sad part is .. they probably do.
The title is very misleading, I was expecting a 13 or 15 year old. At 19, that is a calculating man and he should be dealt with accordingly.....
BTTT
Another Kerry supporter!
drop his feckin' ass in the middle of Mogadishu...
Sure enough, it does appear the young man acquired his interest in terrorists while residing in Washington State.
Without a chute.
The headline does cover a 19-year-old, but what really bothers me is when news media violate their own stylebooks with stories... where the 19-year-old who dumped her newborn baby in a Delaware dumpster is referred to as a "teenage girl" while they call an 18-year-old who wants an abortion a "woman." Subtle bias like that is what permeates the Legacy Media.
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