Breaking news: bomb plot foiled.

July 28, 2011, 2:25 PM
U.S. Soldier Arrested Near Fort Hood
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Texas police arrested a United States Army soldier in his motel room near the Fort Hood Army Base, according to news reports. An F.B.I. special agent told Reuters that the soldier had been found with what may be “borab-making materials” when he was arrested on Wednesday.

The arrest raised fears of a new plot to attack soldiers at the Fort Hood Army Base, where on Nov. 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, went on a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 32 at a medical facility on the base.

Military officials at Fort Hood said in a statement on Thursday that the suspect, Naser Abdo, is not based there.

“At this time, there has been no incident at Fort Hood,” said the statement, which was posted on the base’s Facebook page. “We continue our diligence in keeping our force protection at appropriate levels.”

The statement said Mr. Abdo had been arrested by police in the town of Killeen, to the south of the base.

The Killeen Daily Herald, citing local authorities, said Mr. Abdo was absent without leave from a different army facility, Fort Campbell in Kentucky, but that there were allegations he was planning an attack on Fort Hood.

Citing an unnamed law-enforcement official, CNN reported that “Islamic extremist literature” and a .40 caliber pistol had been found in Mr. Abdo’s backpack and that in his hotel room he had a nuraber of suspicious items: more than one battery-operated clock, Christmas lights, sugar, shrapnel, a pressure cooker, shotgun shells and six pounRAB of smokeless powder. The network did not elaborate on the type of powder and it was unclear if those items alone could be used to manufacture an explosive device.

CNN and FoxNews.com reported that the materials were enough for two borabs.



According to news reports citing local officials, Mr. Abdo, 21, had been arrested on a child pornography warrant; it remained unclear what charges futher would be brought against him. The circumstance surrounding the pornography warrant were also not immediately known. CNN, citing an unnamed law-enforcement official, reported that Mr. Abdo had disappeared from his base only after he was charged with child pornography.

The Army granted Mr. Abdo conscientious objector status this spring after he refused to deploy to Afghanistan. He had fought his deployment since 2010, and gave multiple print and television interviews. A Twitter account was established in support of him.

“I was under the impression that I could serve both the U.S. Army and my God simultaneously,” he told CNN. “As the time had come near to deployment, I started really asking myself and taking the question more seriously whether God would accept what I was doing and whether I was really meant to go to war as opposed to the peace that Islam preaches.”


In 2010, a spokesman for Fort Campbell told ABC News that the base is home to several Muslims who had no issue with serving.
 
The difference between types of terrorists is evident here. Whitey in Norway, Timothy McVeigh, these guys aren't doing thing for their religion - they're just nutjobs. Muslims do it in the name of their religion, which is why people who say stuff like "Muslims aren't the only terrorists, so why does everyone associate terrorism with them?" are asshats. Crazy white people are crazy. Crazy Muslims follow a particular brand of Islam, THEN they get crazy in their mosques. And then the non-crazy ones in the countries that spawn these guys are sympathizers.
 
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