Free Republic

He’s not exactly a nobody. He’s been in the news before. He put himself down as a conscientious objector last year rather than deploy with his unit out of Ft. Campbell to Afghanistan and sought a discharge. And he was a cause celebre of sorts when he did that.

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...

KILLEEN, Texas (AP) -- An alert issued by the Army says an AWOL Muslim soldier who had weapons stashed in a motel room near Fort Hood has admitted planning an attack on the Texas post.

A Department of Defense official tells CNN's Barbara Starr that a search of the hotel room found Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo had enough to make two bombs. The ingredients included gunpowder, shotgun shells, a pressure cooker, 18 pounds of sugar used to enhance the explosion and Christmas lights to be used as a timer. At the surplus store Abdo bought a uniform and asked to have Fort Hood patches sewn on.

Police have arrested an AWOL Muslim soldier plotting another attack on Fort Hood, it was reported today. Killeen Police Department have arrested Pvt. Nasser Jason Abdo, 21, near Ft. Hood. Ft. Hood spokesman Bob Jenkins said Abdo was already being investigated for child pornography before he went AWOL on July 4. After being detained for acting suspiciously near the base, police say they recovered possible bomb making materials from his hotel room. FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said today that firearms and 'items that could be identified as bomb-making components, including gunpowder' were removed from Abdo's Killeen motel room. CNN reported...