Posted on 06/02/2009 12:25:10 PM PDT by Starman417
More information is coming out about the assassination of a US soldier at a Little Rock recruiting booth.
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, aka Carlos Leon Bledsoe and a recent convert to Islam, was already on the FBI's Joint Terrorist Task Force radar since his return from Yemen. He was, in fact, arrested at that time and had a fake Somali passport.
Bledsoe had all the hallmarks of a budding terrorist operative in the US, with friends in all the right global locations, ripe with jihad movements....Yemen, Somalia and Columbus, Ohio.
But investigations take time to compile evidence enough to hold, and convict, a suspected terrorist. This isn't like picking him up on a foreign battlefield. With Constitutional rights in place, law enforcement can be the only option for terrorists who operate on US soil. And the very nature of that method of counterterrorism often requires the death of victims - such as these fine young men, cut down on American streets - when evidence is insufficient to thwart a plot in advance.
And now, officials say, the FBI and the CIA are engaged in an intense effort to reconstruct Muhammad's path to extremism -- and allegedly to murder -- taking apart his life, examining his friendships, educational records, travel within the United States and possible contacts with extremists overseas.Though police have told ABC News that a preliminary investigation indicated that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, acted alone, authorities are trying to determine whether others were involved in the Monday shooting that also critically wounded another soldier. Muhammad has pleaded not guilty to the shooting.
Police could only guess at the motive for Muhammad's attack.
"We believe that it's associated with his disagreement over the military operations," Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas told The Associated Press.
According to a police report, Muhammad told police that he saw two uniformed U.S. soldiers in front of the recruiting office before he shot and killed Pvt. William Long, 23, and wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, while they were taking a break outside the U.S. Army recruiting station where they both worked.
Bledsoe didn't resist arrest, but he was prepared for a shooting joy ride that day. At his immediate disposal was approximately 200 rounds of ammunition. In his car was magazines, all loaded up with 100 additional rounds of ammo and stashed in a vest, an SKS rifle, two pistols and two military books.
(Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...
Let's take up a collection to send a couple of cruise missiles into Mecca.
I want to know where the outrage is for this terrorist act! Has the TOTUS made any announcments yet?
Conan on his new show has a feast here.
A guy named after mad Mo' shooting against the "Great Satan". Motive other than Jihad?
Give me a break.
Another Koran-caused disaster.
The koran and the hadith...
One of the many you’ll see happening in the future as long as the country sits there with its finger up its a$$. Never in our history have we ever invited the enemy into our house to breed even more jihadists.
Which mosque did this SOB go to get his training?
possible contacts with extremists overseas.
Oh come now, certainly there were extremists here he talked to, before he ever went overseas.
Find the Mosque he attended.
You just don’t go to Yemen on a jihadi whim.
There’s a pipeline here, apart from the ones who converted him in jail.
Someone had to evaluate him, recommend him and then facilitate his trip.
It’s that nice guy from the mosque who’s always attending interfaith hearings and what not!
Yikes, that's only 100 miles from me.
Why Columbus, Ohio? There's a hugh mosque in Toledo OH and a pretty large one north of Cincinnati in West Chester, OH.
My son is a Marine recruiter in CT. Something like this were to happen to him, I’m not looking for anybody to blame. I’m not looking for someone to arrest the perp. I’m going to get REVENGE.
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