Bomb materials found in AWOL soldier's room near Fort Hood

[Bob Hubbard]

] A statement on the Fort Hood website acknowledged Pfc. Naser Abdo's arrest but said it had no connection to the base. "We are aware at this time that Killeen Police Department arrested a soldier yesterday. The incident leading to the arrest did not occur on Fort Hood and the soldier was not a Fort Hood based soldier," the statement said.
Abdo was assigned to Fort Campbell in Kentucky.
Abdo refused to deploy to Iraq on grounds of his religion and had put in the paperwork to be discharged as a conscientious objector. The Army approved his request, but he was then charged with child pornography and went AWOL, the official said.
"We have two things that I believe make us American, and that's freedom of religion and freedom of choice," he said in an interview last year.
He said he had to remain true to Islam.

Killeen police received a call from a gun shop owner about a suspicious man in the store who was asking questions about 40-caliber ammunition and then bought three boxes of 12-gauge ammunition and a magazine for a pistol, the defense official said. He paid cash and left in a cab. He then went to a surplus store and allegedly bought a military uniform.
FBI agents searching the soldier's hotel room found gunpowder, shotgun shells, a pressure cooker, 18 pounds of sugar, four magazines and ammunition, the defense official said. The FBI is investigating the case.

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[h=3]Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids[/h]

 

[Twin Fist]

i aint gonna say it

 

[Bob Hubbard]

i aint gonna say it

Thank you.


Since John and I have now agreed to not exchange barbs on this, we can focus on the more serious issue here.

This is the second? US Soldier on US soil caught in terrorist activities. I would seriously hope that the PTB in the military are considering the potential dangers of compromise in our armed forces.

I included the second link because this would on the surface appear to be a major security breach.

 

[Ken Morgan]

I don't intend to step into the religion bashing but i do have a question.

Why do people with strong religious convictions join the military? It can be argued that all religions are against violence, but then why join a force that is committed to violence?


Does nationislism outweight religious conviction?

 

[billc]

Some see the U.S. military as a force for good, protecting the people of this country from the bad guys. It is a noble calling.

 

[billc]

Does the soldier who rolled the grenade into the officers meeting in kuwait count.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Does the soldier who rolled the grenade into the officers meeting in kuwait count.

US Soldier? I don't recall that one Bill.

 

[MaxiMe]

I don't intend to step into the religion bashing but i do have a question.

Why do people with strong religious convictions join the military? It can be argued that all religions are against violence, but then why join a force that is committed to violence?


Does nationislism outweight religious conviction?

I'm wondering if committed is the right word there. most military I talk to don't want war they just train for it.

 

[granfire]

I'm wondering if committed is the right word there. most military I talk to don't want war they just train for it.

true, but most do know that - especially after 9/11 - you sign on the dotted line you better be prepared to put that training to good use.

Otherwise they can join the peace corps....

 

[Nomad]

Abdo, who joined the infantry in 2009, refused to deploy to Afghanistan on grounds of his religion and had put in the paperwork to be discharged as a conscientious objector. The Army approved his request, but on May 13, he was charged with possession of child pornography on his computer, a U.S. military official said.

In an interview last year, Abdo said he refused to deploy to Iraq because he was a Muslim and had to remain true to his faith.

Irony, anyone? I'm pretty sure his faith frowns on child pornography, too.

 

[Twin Fist]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/national/22grenade.html?adxnnl=1&ref=hasankakbar&adxnnlx=1311876408-M8k+dAuSGhXtEt6RlpbUrw

this one Bob

FORT BRAGG, N.C., April 21 (AP) - A military jury convicted an Army sergeant of premeditated murder and attempted murder on Thursday for killing two of his comrades and wounding 14 others in an attack on his own camp in Kuwait at the start of the Iraq war.
The sergeant, Hasan Akbar, 34, could be sentenced to death when the 15-member jury reconvenes on Monday.

 

[MaxiMe]

true, but most do know that - especially after 9/11 - you sign on the dotted line you better be prepared to put that training to good use.

Otherwise they can join the peace corps....

Totally true.
In fairness I'll admit my strong bias in favor of the military (brat here) SemperFi.

 

[billc]

Here is the story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1122736.ece

A DISGRUNTLED US soldier who is a Muslim convert killed one of his officers and wounded 16 other men, three seriously, when he lobbed grenades and fired into three tents at a 101st Airborne Division base in northern Kuwait. The attack was at Camp Pennsylvania, from where troops of the 101st Airborne or “Screaming Eagles” were about to move into southern Iraq. The dead officer was Captain Christopher Scott Seifert, 27.
Confusion was followed by disbelief and shaken morale when it became clear that a fellow soldier was responsible for the attack. He was Sergeant Asan Akbar, an engineer from the 326th Engineer Battalion, a spokesman said.
Sergeant Akbar, who has not been charged, had been “having what some might call an attitude problem”, the spokesman added. He had been disciplined for insubordination and told he would be left in Kuwait when his unit moved into Iraq. He had been under observation for erratic behaviour and had been placed on sentry duty guarding vehicles.

 

[billc]

There is also this story:

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/03/08/a-muslim-us-sailor-named-abujihaad/

From the article:

Hassan Abujihaad, a Muslim American sailor who cheered the terrorist attack on the USS Cole, is accused of divulging ship locations to a suspected terror fund-raiser while serving aboard the USS Benfold, a guided-missile destroyer in 2001 and 2002:

*****************DISCLAIMER***********************

THE POSTING OF THIS POST DOES NOT MEAN THAT ALL MUSLIMS SERVING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES ARE RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORISTS. IT IS A RESPONSE TO A QUESTION IN A POST AND WAS DISCOVERED IN A SEARCH TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. THERE ARE MUSLIMS SERVING HONORABLY IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THIS COUNTRY AND WHO SERVE AT RISK OF GREAT PERSONAL HARM. THEY ARE TO BE HONORED AND THANKED FOR THEIR HEROIC SERVICE AGAINST THREATS TO AMERICA, INCLUDING THE THREAT OF RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORISM.

*******************END DISCLAIMER*****************************

 

[Bob Hubbard]

There are thousands of Muslims in the US military serving honorably.

But we have a small handful here, in a short period of time, violating their oaths and attacking their countrymen.

Outside of a claimed religion, are there any other similarities? Any reports of them being organized, or are these random coincidences?

The child-porn find hints at an organized infiltration. This is bad for a number of reasons.
1 being that innocents will be accused, careers destroyed, lives uprooted and possibly lost.
2 it hints that the enemy is able to circumvent our defenses and either install long-term sleeper agents, or compromise our troops.

5-6 people out of a million uniformed troops is not a sample of any scientific note.
But 5-6, with similarities, is grounds for deeper investigation.

 

[Twin Fist]

it might also mean that even the most loyal and patriotic american can, under the right combination of influences, become a killer.

Islam seems to be a recurring thread in these cases

Bob, i dont think it is sleeper agents so much as it is the nature of the religion itself. it can, in the right mind, fester till it grows and takes control.

 

[Grenadier]

We are fortunate that this terrorist (yes, he's a terrorist, not a freedom fighter, not a patriotic rebel, not a devout soldier) was just plain stupid. You don't go into a gun store, attempt to buy 6 lbs of smokeless powder, and ask what its uses are...

 

[billc]

He should have asked, "If you wanted to kill a lot of people really fast, which gun would you recommend, and can I get it gift wrapped?"