Posted on 07/28/2011 12:19:42 PM PDT by KyGeezer
A U.S. serviceman is in custody after he allegedly admitted he was planning an attack on the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, the same base where 13 people were killed in a 2009 terror attack.
U.S. officials told ABC News an AWOL serviceman, identified by the FBI as a Private First Class Naser Jason Abdo, was arrested Wednesday after making a purchase at Guns Galore in Killeen, Texas, the same ammunition store where Maj. Nidal Hasan purchased the weapons he allegedly used to gun down 13 people and wound 32 others on Nov. 5, 2009.
Abdo, 21, allegedly told law enforcement he wanted to "get even" and was targeting Ft. Hood because of the previous attack there allegedly carried out by Hasan, according to law enforcement documents obtained by ABC News. He allegedly did not plan to attack the base itself, but instead planned to plant a bomb at a nearby restaurant popular with Ft. Hood personnel.
He was in the process of building two bombs and hoped to detonate both at the target location before using a pistol to shoot survivors, the documents say.
The soldier had gone AWOL over the July 4 weekend from Fort Campbell's 101st Airborne Division in Kentucky over 800 miles away, according to a senior military officer.
When he was arrested, Abdo was in possession of large quantities of ammunition, weapons and what appeared to be the makings of a bomb, according to early accounts from law enforcement. He had also apparently purchased an Army uniform with Fort Hood patches from a local surplus store.
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You would be surprized at what the individual citizen and business owners of gun store and guns ranges have been asked to do. My friends at Guns Galore and others were requested to report suspicious behaviors. We all have direct contact with several gov’t agencies that requires no redtape to get thru. I am sorry if this a long reply, been a few months since I last logged in.
Considering the increasingly leftist slant of our military leadership, that comes as a welcome surprise.
Please spare us from anything corny or, even worse, callous.
Leni
anyone ‘really tired’ of sucking on muslimes?
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