Paratrooper found guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot

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**Frazzled**

Naser Jason Abdo found guilty. Put him against the wall. Fort Hood's within driving distance of my house and my boy used to play Yu Gi Yo with troopers who drove in for tournaments.

Feds: AWOL soldier found guilty in Fort Hood bomb plotBy the CNN Wire Staff
updated 6:36 AM EDT, Fri May 25, 2012
Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo was arrested with bomb-making materials near Fort Hood, Texas.STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Naser Jason Abdo was arrested in Texas in July
Prosecutors said he planned to bomb a restaurant near Fort Hood
Abdo faces a possible life sentence with his conviction
(CNN) -- A U.S. soldier charged with plotting to blow up troops from the nation's largest Army post has been found guilty of a battery of federal charges, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Naser Jason Abdo was found guilty of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of federal employees, and weapons charges, the U.S. attorney's office in Waco, Texas, said. Prosecutors said the 22-year-old private first class wanted to bomb a restaurant frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood, in Killeen, Texas.

Abdo was absent without leave from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, when he was arrested in Texas in July 2011. Prosecutors said he was in the process of building a bomb when he was caught.

The Muslim-American paratrooper had been granted conscientious objector status after refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. In May 2011, he was charged with possession of child pornography, and went AWOL the following month.

Judge wants to see tapes of alleged Gitmo abuse

In a November interview with CNN affiliate WSMV in Nashville, Tennessee, Abdo said he originally planned to attack his own post, hoping to kill "a high-ranking member of my chain of command" who had served in Afghanistan. But he said he went AWOL after military police learned he had visited gun stores and bought a variety of tools he planned to use in that attack, including a cattle prod, handcuffs and shovels.

Instead, he turned his attention to Fort Hood, where another Muslim-American soldier, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, is accused of gunning down 13 comrades and wounding more than 30 others.

"I felt like the only way to freedom or justice was martyrdom," Abdo told WSMV.

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**d-usa**

What the hell is a Muslim-American? Is that a race now? Am I a Christian-American?

**sirlynchmob**

d-usa wrote:What the hell is a Muslim-American? Is that a race now? Am I a Christian-American?

christians are not a race, muslims are.

**d-usa**

sirlynchmob wrote:
d-usa wrote:What the hell is a Muslim-American? Is that a race now? Am I a Christian-American?

christians are not a race, muslims are.

Muslims are followers of a religion, not a race.

**Frazzled**

D-use is correct.

However the article is saying he was an American citizen and a follower of Islam. Its like saying Jewish Americans I guess.

**d-usa**

Well even Jewish can be a race, as well as a religion. Mostly just bad reporting/writing by CNN in my opinion.

**AustonT**

sirlynchmob wrote:
d-usa wrote:What the hell is a Muslim-American? Is that a race now? Am I a Christian-American?

christians are not a race, muslims are.

neither is a race.

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I'm surprised they didn't mention the child pornography.

**Monster Rain**

Good!

Life in prison seems reasonable. Not quite as harsh as I'd recommend, but whatevs.

**LordofHats**

I fail to see how identifying someone as a muslim american is a fallacy. He's muslim, and he's American. The term is accurate (unless American's can only be identified by the color of the skin for some reason).

Of course, with the child porn and what not, wanting to make a bomb doesn't really seem like his only problem.

**AustonT**

LordofHats wrote:I fail to see how identifying someone as a muslim american is a fallacy. He's muslim, and he's American. The term is accurate (unless American's can only be identified by the color of the skin for some reason).

Of course, with the child porn and what not, wanting to make a bomb doesn't really seem like his only problem.

If you search his name he looks Caucasian. Also if you are going to capitalize American, Muslim gets it too. Grammar Nazi in me is flaring up.

**Frazzled**

Yea a real dirt bag

**LordofHats**

As my intern supervisor once told me "Hats, you grew up in the Army, so your ability to capitalize is already shot to hell."

**AustonT**

I speak fluent acronyms.
I also won $100 off another NCO who didn't think I could find one of our soldiers using only letters and no real words. Epic.