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How the AWOL Muslim soldier accused of plotting to kill Fort Hood troops was foiled
Jewish World Review ^ | 7/29/2011 | Chris Vaughn and Darren Barbee

Posted on 07/29/2011 7:51:58 AM PDT by Former Fetus

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To: Former Fetus
The would-be murderer Abdo was buddies with the Iraq Veterans Against the War.
21 posted on 07/29/2011 3:00:48 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: darth

Many of the smartest kid of the “boomer” generation experimented with rockets and explosives. I blew up a small lab at home myself. I ended up with only a few stitches next to my eye. It could have been much worse.


22 posted on 07/29/2011 3:38:44 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: darth
heh heh heh..."You gonna fish or you gonna talk?"


Fish Story
23 posted on 07/30/2011 1:46:26 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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ON THE INTERNET:


FBI.gov - San Antonio - Press Release: "NASER JASON ABDO CHARGED FEDERALLY IN BOMB PLOT" (July 29, 2011)

Link (pdf)

WASHINGTON POST.com - Checkpoint Washington - blog: "BOMBMAKING MATERIALS ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN SOLDIER'S MOTEL CORRESPOND WITH AL-QAEDA RECIPE" by Jason Ukman (SNIPPET: "The ingredients were listed in an article that appeared last year in Inspire..." SNIPPET: "Inspire is believed to be produced by Samir Khan...") (July 29, 2011, 02:59 pm ET)
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CNN.com: "OFFICIAL: SOLDIER SAID HE WANTED TO ATTACK FORT HOOD TROOPS" (July 29, 2011, 3:31 a.m. EDT)

Governor.State.TX.US: "Statement by Gov Rick Perry on Arrest of AWOL Soldier" (July 28, 2011)

FOX NEWS.com: "AWOL SOLDIER ARRESTED IN WHAT POLICE SAY WAS NEW FORT HOOD TERROR PLOT" by Mike Levine & Jennifer Griffin (SNIPPET: "Bob Jenkins, a Fort Campbell spokesman, told Fox News that Abdo was also being investigated for child pornography found on his government computer.") (July 28, 2011)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "FORT HOOD TARGETED FOR SECOND TERRORIST ATTACK" (SNIPPET: "...Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo, 21 was taken into custody...") (July 28, 2011)

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ABC NEWS.go.com: "Devout Muslim Soldier Hopes to Avoid Deployment to Afghanistan" by Sarah Netter (August 31, 2010)

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24 posted on 07/30/2011 2:13:03 AM PDT by Cindy
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RECAP and UPDATED:


FBI.gov - San Antonio - Press Release: "NASER JASON ABDO CHARGED FEDERALLY IN BOMB PLOT" (July 29, 2011)

Link (pdf)

WASHINGTON POST.com - Checkpoint Washington - blog: "BOMBMAKING MATERIALS ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN SOLDIER'S MOTEL CORRESPOND WITH AL-QAEDA RECIPE" by Jason Ukman (SNIPPET: "The ingredients were listed in an article that appeared last year in Inspire..." SNIPPET: "Inspire is believed to be produced by Samir Khan...") (July 29, 2011, 02:59 pm ET)
Link

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CNN.com: "OFFICIAL: SOLDIER SAID HE WANTED TO ATTACK FORT HOOD TROOPS" (July 29, 2011, 3:31 a.m. EDT)

Governor.State.TX.US: "Statement by Gov Rick Perry on Arrest of AWOL Soldier" (July 28, 2011)

FOX NEWS.com: "AWOL SOLDIER ARRESTED IN WHAT POLICE SAY WAS NEW FORT HOOD TERROR PLOT" by Mike Levine & Jennifer Griffin (SNIPPET: "Bob Jenkins, a Fort Campbell spokesman, told Fox News that Abdo was also being investigated for child pornography found on his government computer.") (July 28, 2011)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "FORT HOOD TARGETED FOR SECOND TERRORIST ATTACK" (SNIPPET: "...Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo, 21 was taken into custody...") (July 28, 2011)

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ABC NEWS.go.com: "Devout Muslim Soldier Hopes to Avoid Deployment to Afghanistan" by Sarah Netter (August 31, 2010)

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MYFOXDFW.com: Garland, Texas - "TERROR SUSPECT GREW UP IN BROKEN NORTH TEXAS HOME" (SNIPPET: "At the time she said Morlan was seeking help for substance abuse and was mainly absent from her kids' lives. That left Abdo and his sister in the care of their Palestinian father, a Muslim." SNIPPET: "Jamal Abdo was arrested in 2004 accused of soliciting sex from a Garland detective posing online as a 15-year-old girl named Molly. Police said between 2002 and his arrest, Jamal Abdo has asked Molly for sex dozens of times. He was arrested when he showed up to an apartment complex to meet her. He was sentenced to five years in prison and last year was deported to Jordan.") (July 29, 2011, 7:28 pm CDT)

25 posted on 07/31/2011 1:23:34 AM PDT by Cindy
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KXXV.com: Waco - "ALLEGED FORT HOOD BOMB PLOTTER LAUGHS THROUGH HEARING" (SNIPPET: "Three FBI special agents testified that Abdo had all the pieces to make a bomb, in accordance with instructions laid out in an article he was found with titled "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom." The article was taken from an English-language Al Qaeda magazine called "Inspire," which has published several issues since 2010.") (August 4, 2011)
News.INTELWIRE.com: "WHO REALLY INSPIRED NASSER ABDO?" (August 4, 2011)

FBI.gov - San Antonio - Press Release: "NASER JASON ABDO CHARGED FEDERALLY IN BOMB PLOT" (July 29, 2011)

Link (pdf)

WASHINGTON POST.com - Checkpoint Washington - blog: "BOMBMAKING MATERIALS ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN SOLDIER'S MOTEL CORRESPOND WITH AL-QAEDA RECIPE" by Jason Ukman (SNIPPET: "The ingredients were listed in an article that appeared last year in Inspire..." SNIPPET: "Inspire is believed to be produced by Samir Khan...") (July 29, 2011, 02:59 pm ET)
Link

Link

CNN.com: "OFFICIAL: SOLDIER SAID HE WANTED TO ATTACK FORT HOOD TROOPS" (July 29, 2011, 3:31 a.m. EDT)

Governor.State.TX.US: "Statement by Gov Rick Perry on Arrest of AWOL Soldier" (July 28, 2011)

FOX NEWS.com: "AWOL SOLDIER ARRESTED IN WHAT POLICE SAY WAS NEW FORT HOOD TERROR PLOT" by Mike Levine & Jennifer Griffin (SNIPPET: "Bob Jenkins, a Fort Campbell spokesman, told Fox News that Abdo was also being investigated for child pornography found on his government computer.") (July 28, 2011)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "FORT HOOD TARGETED FOR SECOND TERRORIST ATTACK" (SNIPPET: "...Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo, 21 was taken into custody...") (July 28, 2011)

Link

Link

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ABC NEWS.go.com: "Devout Muslim Soldier Hopes to Avoid Deployment to Afghanistan" by Sarah Netter (August 31, 2010)

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MYFOXDFW.com: Garland, Texas - "TERROR SUSPECT GREW UP IN BROKEN NORTH TEXAS HOME" (SNIPPET: "At the time she said Morlan was seeking help for substance abuse and was mainly absent from her kids' lives. That left Abdo and his sister in the care of their Palestinian father, a Muslim." SNIPPET: "Jamal Abdo was arrested in 2004 accused of soliciting sex from a Garland detective posing online as a 15-year-old girl named Molly. Police said between 2002 and his arrest, Jamal Abdo has asked Molly for sex dozens of times. He was arrested when he showed up to an apartment complex to meet her. He was sentenced to five years in prison and last year was deported to Jordan.") (July 29, 2011, 7:28 pm CDT)
News.BOSTON HERALD.com: Fort Worth, Texas - "COURT RECORDS SHOW CRIMINAL HISTORY OF FORT HOOD SUSPECT'S PARENTS" (SNIPPET: "His father, a convicted felon, is in Jordan, where he was deported by the U.S. government last year.") (Updated July 30, 2011)

26 posted on 08/06/2011 3:48:50 AM PDT by Cindy
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NOTE The following text is a quote:

www.fbi.gov/sanantonio/press-releases/2011/naser-jason-abdo-indicted-by-a-federal-grand-jury-in-texas-in-connection-with-bomb-plot

Naser Jason Abdo Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Texas in Connection with Bomb Plot
U.S. Attorney’s Office
August 09, 2011

WACO, TX—U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy and FBI Special Agent in Charge Cory B. Nelson announced that a federal grand jury seated in Waco returned an indictment this afternoon charging 21-year-old Naser Jason Abdo with possession of an unregistered destructive device, as well as possession of a firearm and ammunition by a fugitive from justice.

The three-count indictment specifically alleges that on July 27, 2011, Abdo was in possession of a destructive device not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record as well as a .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol and 20-gauge shot shells while being a fugitive from justice.

According to court records, officers with the Killeen (Texas) Police Department arrested Abdo on July 27, 2011. At the time of his arrest, the defendant, an AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was in possession of the handgun plus instructions on how to build a bomb as well as bomb making components, including six bottles of smokeless gunpowder, shotgun shells, shotgun pellets, two clocks, two spools of auto wire, an electric drill, and two pressure cookers. Court documents also allege that Abdo intended to use the materials to assemble two destructive devices with the intention of detonating them inside an unspecified restaurant frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood.

Abdo remains in federal custody. If convicted, he faces up to 10 in years in federal prison and a maximum $250,000 fine per count.

This case is being investigated by agents with the FBI together with U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Killeen Police Department; and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Frazier is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.

An indictment is merely a charge and should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.


27 posted on 08/09/2011 3:19:21 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://forum.internet-haganah.com/showthread.php?363-Nasser-Abdo-implodes

22 November 2011, 11:32
“Nasser Abdo implodes”

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http://www.wsmv.com/story/16096543/nasser-abdo-spells-out-planned-attack-on-fort-campbell

“Nasser Abdo spells out planned attack on Fort Campbell”

Posted: Nov 21, 2011 4:40 PM PST
Updated: Nov 21, 2011 5:29 PM PST
Posted by Carley Gordon
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -

SNIPPET: “Before he made headlines for going AWOL and allegedly plotting an attack on Fort Hood, Nasser Abdo said he had another plan that no one knew about until now.

“Yes, Ms. Gordon, I planned an attack at Fort Campbell,” said Abdo in a phone interview from jail.

In his first interview since being charged with planning to both blow up a restaurant outside Fort Hood and shoot soldiers, Abdo told Channel 4 his original target was his original post.

That target: an unnamed, high ranking official at Fort Campbell.

“On July 4, I was going to kidnap and video tape the execution of a high ranking member of my chain of command, who participated in the Afghan mission,” said Abdo.”


28 posted on 11/23/2011 1:45:04 AM PST by Cindy
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Document - Copy of DOJ Press Release:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1984.pdf

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http://www.investigativeproject.org/3592/the-reason-is-religion-mom

IPT News
May 24, 2012

“’The Reason Is Religion Mom’”

SNIPPET: “Army Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo faced his mother during a visit in a Texas jail last July.

Abdo had been arrested for plotting an attack on a restaurant in Killeen popular with soldiers from nearby Fort Hood. He would set off a bomb inside the restaurant, then shoot and kill as many survivors as possible as they scrambled out to safety.

His mother asked the obvious question. Why?

Jurors convicted Abdo’s Thursday of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder after hearing and seeing the answer on video.

“The reason is religion, Mom.”

He had to act in response to American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. As a Muslim, he considered those affected by such actions to be family. “When bad things are happening,” he said, “you have to do something about it.”

His mother couldn’t comprehend her son’s logic, to which he explained, “it may seem crazy from the outside, but it’s not.”

Abdo’s reasoning echoes the justification offered by a series of attempted homegrown jihadists. If America is killing Muslims, the logic goes, Muslims must do whatever they can to stop it.

Abdo chose Fort Hood as a target because that’s where Army psychologist Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire a year earlier, killing 13 people. Hasan reportedly shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as he opened fire, and had built a disturbing record of justifying suicide bombings and endorsing other radical ideas during his time in the service.

Hasan had been in direct contact with American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki before the attack. Abdo carried copies of al-Qaida’s English-language magazine, Inspire, which included articles from Awlaki invoking theology in urging Muslims in America to wage attacks at home.”


29 posted on 05/25/2012 2:06:32 AM PDT by Cindy
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WASHINGTON POST.com (AP): Waco, Texas - "MUSLIM SOLDIER CONVICTED IN FAILED PLOT TO BOMB FORT HOOD TROOPS IN TEXAS RESTAURANT" (Updated May 25, 2012, 12:10 am) (Read More…)

30 posted on 05/25/2012 2:26:50 AM PDT by Cindy
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NOTE The following text is a quote:

www.fbi.gov/sanantonio/press-releases/2012/naser-jason-abdo-sentenced-to-life-in-federal-prison-in-connection-with-killeen-bomb-plot

Naser Jason Abdo Sentenced to Life in Federal Prison in Connection with Killeen Bomb Plot

U.S. Attorney’s Office
August 10, 2012

Western District of Texas

Naser Jason Abdo, age 22, will spend the rest of his life in federal prison for plotting to kill American soldiers and others near Fort Hood, Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security Lisa Monaco, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez, and Killeen Police Chief Dennis M. Baldwin.

This morning in Waco, United States District Judge Walter S. Smith imposed two consecutive life prison sentences for attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and for possession of a weapon in furtherance of a federal crime of violence. In addition, Judge Smith also sentenced Abdo to a total mandatory consecutive 60 years’ imprisonment for one count of attempted murder of officers or employees of the United States, two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a federal crime of violence, and one count of possession of a weapon in furtherance of a federal crime of violence.

In May, a federal jury convicted Abdo of the above mentioned charges. Testimony presented at trial revealed that on July 27, 2011, Abdo unlawfully attempted to create and detonate a bomb in an attempt to kill, with pre-meditation and malice aforethought, members of the uniformed services of the United States and to shoot survivors of said detonation with a firearm. Evidence further revealed that Abdo did knowingly possess a .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol while carrying out his plot.

“This case serves as another reminder of the need for vigilance against extremists both at home and abroad,” said Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “I thank the many federal, state, and local law enforcement officials who thwarted Abdo’s plot and were responsible for this successful prosecution.”

Following the sentencing hearing, United States Attorney Robert Pitman stated, “This prosecution demonstrates two important points. First, the prevention of tragic events such as Mr. Abdo was planning can be averted by alert citizens who pass along their concerns to law enforcement officials and by law enforcement officers who diligently perform their duties. And second, that those who use or plan violence to further their twisted agendas will be prosecuted as aggressively as the law allows and will, as in this case, spend the rest of their lives staring at the walls of a prison cell.”

Officers with the Killeen Police Department arrested Abdo on July 27, 2011. At the time of his arrest, the defendant, an absent without leave (AWOL) soldier from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was in possession of the handgun, plus instructions on how to build a bomb as well as bomb making components. Testimony during the trial revealed that Abdo intended to detonate the destructive device inside an unspecified restaurant frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood.

“Today’s sentencing of Mr. Abdo is a conclusion to an investigation which defines what we hope to do every time, that is to prevent an act of terrorism before it occurs,” stated FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.

“This sentencing today provides a sense of comfort to the Killeen residents, especially those affiliated with the military, that Mr. Abdo will no longer be a threat to our community,” stated Killen Police Chief Dennis Baldwin.

This case was investigated by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and their Joint Terrorism Task Force together with the Killeen Police Department; U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Command, 902nd MI Group and Explosives Ordnance Disposal; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; United States Marshals Service; Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers; Bell County District Attorney’s Office; McLennan County Sheriff’s Office; and the Oak Grove (Kentucky) Police Department. Assistant United States Attorneys Mark Frazier and Gregg Sofer of the Western District of Texas and trial attorney Larry Schneider of the DOJ Counterterrorism Section prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.


31 posted on 08/11/2012 4:37:54 AM PDT by Cindy
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