Posted on 06/01/2009 9:58:30 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Edited on 06/01/2009 1:41:38 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Previously...
June 2, 2009
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http://littlerock.fbi.gov/pressrel/2009/lr060209.htm
Arrest of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed
Little Rock Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Browne issued the following statement:
“On June 1, 2009, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed, formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe, was arrested by the Little Rock, Arkansas Police Department for the murder of Pvt. William Long and the attempted murder of Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, two soldiers in the United States Army at an Army Recruiting Office in Little Rock.
“Muhammed is presently in custody and will face state charges related to the incident.
“The FBI is also investigating this incident, which may result in additional federal charges and prosecution.
As the investigation remains active, the FBI will not make any public statements about the status of the investigation of Muhammed. All information regarding the case is being shared between the FBI, the Little Rock Police Department, and state and federal prosecutors.”
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Exclusive: FBI Probes Muhammad’s Ties to Ohio Mosque
ABC News ^ | June 4, 2009 | By RICHARD ESPOSITO, PIERRE THOMAS and JACK DATE
Posted on June 4, 2009 5:45:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Nuradin Abdi was convicted in 2007 of planning to blow up an Ohio shopping mall.
Iyman Faris was convicted in 2003 of planning to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.
Christopher Paul was convicted in 2008 of conspiring to use explosives against targets in the U.S. and Europe.
All three terrorists worshiped and socialized at a small mosque in Columbus, Ohio, and, according to David B. Smith, an attorney for Faris, were part of a larger group of jihadists and extremists who frequented the mosque.
The FBI now is investigating reports of links to that same mosque by Muslim-convert Abdulhakim Muhammad who allegedly shot and killed one soldier Monday and critically wounded another in a drive-by attack on a Little Rock, Ark., recruiting station, ABC News has learned.
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Lawyer: Ark. attack suspect ‘radicalized’ [while in prison] in Yemen
Google AP ^ | June 4, 2006 | By JON GAMBRELL
Posted on June 4, 2009 5:01:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting a soldier outside a recruiting center begged for FBI agents to free him from a Yemeni jail where he was “radicalized” by Islamic terrorists, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Lawyer Jim Hensley described Abdulhakim Muhammad as an impressionable youth driven to public service in an impoverished Middle Eastern country. But teachings by “hardened” terrorists in Yemen and experiences with Afghan child refugees who were missing limbs drove him to become someone his parents didn’t recognize, Hensley said.
“Here comes the FBI, who may be able to help this guy or save his life, and then they leave and then he’s got to go back in with these hardened terrorists. He’s got to survive, how do you live with that?” Hensley said. “He absolutely feels that the FBI and anyone else associated with the United States government left him to the wolves, that’s for certain.”
The FBI referred calls to a spokesman who was not in his office Thursday. Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley did not immediately respond to a call for comment.
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Hensley said Muhammad was a college student in Tennessee and left early to pursue volunteer work teaching English to children in Yemen. The lawless and impoverished country on the tip of the Arabian peninsula — also the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden’s family — was the scene of one of al-Qaida’s most dramatic pre-9/11 attacks, the 2000 suicide bombing of the destroyer USS Cole off the Aden coast that killed 17 American sailors.
While in Yemen, Hensley said Muhammad married and converted to Islam...
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“Shooter of Army Recruiters was a Muslim”
(June 4, 2009)
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Family praises slain GI, calling him soldier, hero (Pvt Willam Long, terrorist victim in AR)
ARDEMGAZ (requires subscription) ^ | 09 JUN 09 | BY SAMANTHA FRIEDMAN
Posted on June 9, 2009 6:12:43 AM PDT by DCBryan1
The day before he died, U.S. Army Pvt. William Andrew “Andy” Long floated the Buffalo River with his sister, Vanessa Rice. If he had his way, she said, the pair would have gone skydiving.
“I’m so blessed to have had that day with Andy,” Rice tearfully told guests at her brother’s funeral Monday at Harlan Park Baptist Church in Conway. “My brother meant the world to me. Andy loved to be outdoors, to travel, and he couldn’t wait to get to Korea to serve his country.”
The service was followed by a burial with full military honors Monday at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock.
Long, 23, of Conway, was shot and killed June 1 outside a west Little Rock recruiting office. Fellow Army Private Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, was wounded in the attack.
The church’s sanctuary was filled with Long’s family and friends, fellow armed service members, and government officials, including Gov. Mike Beebe and U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder.
Pastor Johnny Harrington of Long’s church, Sunny Gap Baptist Church in Conway, praised Long’s commitment to the Army and recent appointment to the Army’s Hometown Recruiter Assistance Program in Little Rock. He said Long is a fourth-generation armed services member. Long’s father, Daris Long, is retired from the U.S. Marine Corps.
“No one is more military, no one is more patriotic than this family right here,” Harrington said. “Military runs through their hearts and their blood. No one is more dedicated to it than they, and I know that they couldn’t be prouder of Andy and his desire to serve his country.
“I asked Daris what’s the one word he’d use to describe Andy, and he said two: soldier and hero.”
Wearing a red cap signifying that he is a retired U.S. Marine and an American flag tie, Long’s father shared a letter he had written his son in advance of his scheduled departure for his first duty post in South Korea, which had been set for Monday. He advised his son to always do the right thing, to put aside his personal feelings, to follow the orders of the president and his commanding officers.
“You and your brother ... are both heroes for having the moral courage to stand up when your country needs you most,” Daris Long read. “You are in my hopes and my thoughts and my prayers. You are my son, you are my hero. I love you. Semper fidelis.”
Long’s brother, Pfc. Triston Long of Fort Bliss, Texas, gave Long the cavalry branch insignia badge on behalf of his own unit and in honor of Long’s Army service.
“My brother taught me valuable lessons and made me the man I am today,” Triston Long said. “My commander said, ‘Make your brother one of us.’ I will miss my brother with all that I am, and I serve in honor of him.”
Long also was honored with the Army Commendation Medal and the Army Good Conduct Medal.
The Arkansas Blue Star Mothers presented Long’s mother, Janet Long, with the Gold Star Banner, given to mothers of service members killed in the line of duty.
The funeral service ended with a slideshow featuring childhood photos of William Long and his family.
Camp Robinson Chaplain Jeremy Miller led the burial service.
“We’re here to honor this man today for the sacrifice that he was,” he told Long’s family.
Arkansas Army National Guard Honor Guard members served as pallbearers. After the playing of taps, they presented American flags to Long’s mother, brother and sister, and the family placed red roses atop the casket.
Dozens of leather-vested veterans of the Patriot Guard Riders lined up with flags outside the church during the service, then surrounded the family with their motorcycles at the cemetery.
Beebe issued a proclamation Friday directing U.S. and Arkansas flags be flown at half-staff Monday.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54712
Wounded Recruiting Office Shooting Victim Praises Army for Support
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2009 – A soldier wounded last week during an attack at a recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., that claimed a fellow soldier’s life expressed no bitterness today at his attacker, and said the incident has done nothing to dampen his desire to serve in the Army.
Army Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, spoke publicly about the incident for the first time since he was gunned down outside an Army recruiting office June 1. He is recovering from gunshot wounds to his neck, back and buttocks.
Army Pvt. William Long, 23, was killed in the attack. He was buried yesterday at Camp Robinson, Ark.
Abdulhakim Muhammad, the alleged shooter, was arrested shortly after the attack. He faces charges of capital murder and committing a terroristic act.
President Barack Obama released a statement shortly after the incident. “I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe,” he said. “I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”
Asked by a reporter today about his recovery, the understated Ezeagwula stated simply, “I’m doing fine, sir.”
Ezeaguwula said he joined the military because he “wanted to be able to help my family out,” and thought the Army sounded like a good way to do so.
“I actually learned to love the Army,” he told reporters today.
Ezeaguwula expressed thanks about the Army’s support since the incident. “I really appreciate what they have done for my family and for Private Long’s family,” he said.
His mother, who joined him at the news conference, echoed her son’s thanks and said the experience reaffirmed her confidence that the Army will look out for him.
“I really would like to commend the Army for everything they have done for us,” said his mother, who was not identified by name. She said the support Army caregivers have provided her son makes her feel “very secure about my son being in their care.”
“I couldn’t ask for a better person than God himself,” she said. The soldier’s mother added that she’s happy her son wants to continue his Army service.
“I feel very good about him staying in the Army and wanting to represent the United States,” she said. “I think that’s a wonderful thing.”
She said she hopes the incident sends a message that the United States “is going to step up to the plate and take whatever necessary steps need to be taken to protect Americans.”
“You just can’t [launch an attack] like that and think it’s OK,” she said.
Still, she said, she harbors “no ill feelings” toward her son’s attacker.
“I just pray that justice be served,” she said, adding that she hopes the outcome will “be fair.”
Ezeagwula and Long recently completed basic training and infantry training and were serving a temporary recruiting assignment before moving on to their first assignments. Once he recovers, Ezeagwula will continue to his assignment at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
http://blackhillsportal.com/npps/story.cfm?id=3089
“Media Blackout On Domestic Terrorist and Funeral of War Hero
Victom of Domestic Terrorist Laid to Rest”
By Jim Kouri, CPP
SNIPPET: “Media Blackout: Soldier Slain by Domestic Terrorist Laid to Rest with Honors
The victim of a domestic terrorist was laid to rest today without the benefit of the major news coverage his story deserved.
Private William Long, a US Army recruiter, shot and killed by a Islamic convert on June 1 as he stood outside of an Army-Navy recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas. His killer, Abdulhakim Majahid Muhammad, a/k/a Carl Leon Bledsoe, converted to Islam as a teenager.
Long’s family have a long history of military service and dozens of family members and friends, as well as hundreds of Patriot Guard riders gathered at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery to bid the 24-year old soldier farewell.
The emotional service, which was open to the public, included a 21 gun salute.
There were many in attendance from the US military and the law enforcement community to pay their final respects to a fallen soldier — the first killed on American soil by a terrorist since September 11, 2001.
Unfortunately, except for a few news stories filed by Associated Press and local newspapers, the majority of the major news outlets ignored the service. Even the story carried in the Little Rock news media failed to mention how the soldier was murdered and by whom.”
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/261584/
“Judge issues gag order in GI-shooting case”
BY JACOB QUINN SANDERS
Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2009
SNIPPET: “Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle issued a gag order Monday in the case of the man accused of killing one U.S. Army soldier and wounding another outside a west Little Rock recruiting office last week.
Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley requested that Lightle issue an order barring “police agencies” and defense and prosecution attorneys and their staffs from commenting publicly on the case of Abdul-Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23.
It is not clear from the order whether “police agencies” includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who also are investigating Muhammad.
Muhammad’s attorney, Jim Hensley, did not appear in Lightle’s court Monday morning. He could not be reached for comment.”
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Capital murder charge filed in Army recruit killing (Abdulhakim Muhammad aka Carlos Bledsoe)
Texarkana Gazette ^ | 7/23/09
Posted on July 27, 2009 7:20:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Capital murder charge filed in Army recruit killing
By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette -
Published: 07/23/2009
LITTLE ROCK—Prosecutors have filed a capital murder charge against a man who confessed to killing one soldier and wounding another outside an Army recruiting center in Little Rock.
Abdulhakim Muhammad, 24, is also charged with attempted capital murder and 10 counts of firing a gun from a vehicle.
Muhammad is accused of fatally shooting Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula of Jacksonville. Both had just finished basic training and were outside the recruiting center June 1 when Muhammad drove up, opened fire and sped away. He was arrested a short time later.
Formal charges were entered Tuesday, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
Prosecutor Larry Jegley said Wednesday that his office may pursue the death penalty.
Federal prosecutors have also explored filing charges against Muhammad.
Officers said Muhammad told them he intended to kill as many U.S. soldiers as he could. Muhammad, a Muslim convert, told The Associated Press in two phone interviews from jail last month that he didn’t view Long’s slaying as murder given U.S. military action against Muslims.
With the formal charges, Muhammad’s case moves to circuit court, where Judge Herbert T. Wright Jr. will preside. Wright’s office said Wednesday that it had not yet received enough information to schedule Muhammad’s arraignment.
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“Arkansas jihadist’s father: FBI tracked his son for two years, did nothing”
(December 5, 2009)
SNIPPET: “Politically correct dhimmitude at work again? Did the FBI agents tracking Abdulhakim Muhammad fear being accused of “Islamophobia” if they did anything about this jihadist?
Abdulhakim Muhammad Update: “Suspect’s dad: FBI ‘dropped the ball’ on warning signs,” by David Goins for Fox16.com, November 24 (thanks to James):
The father of the man charged with shooting two soldiers in Little Rock is speaking out. He says his son, Abdulhakim Muhammad, was manipulated by Islamic extremists overseas and the FBI knew it but didn’t step in before it was too late.
Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis looks at what his son is accused of doing at the Army Recruiter Station in Little Rock last June the same way he looks at foiled terror plots in Dallas, and the Fort Hood shootings earlier this month. He sees them all as acts of terrorism that could have been prevented....
early six months after police say his son, Abdulhakim Muhammad, 24, gunned down two soldiers, Bledsoe wants answers from the federal government. “I don’t understand why the federal government has not taken this case which it is,” Bledsoe says. “This involves a United States soldier.”
Bledsoe says the FBI tracked his son for two years after he traveled to Yemen and knew of his growing extremist views but didn’t do anything to stop it.”
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Previously...
“Arkansas jihadist says his murder of soldier was “for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world””
(June 9, 2009)
SNIPPET: “Since the people in the Little Rock mosque are claiming not to know him, it is all the more unlikely that they will not take it upon themselves to explain, either to non-Muslims or to Muslims, exactly how he is getting Islam and jihad wrong.
Arkansas Jihad Update. “Suspect in soldier shooting says he was justified,” by Kelly P. Kissel for Associated Press, June 9 (thanks to James):
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn’t consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.
“I do feel I’m not guilty,” Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press in a collect call from the Pulaski County jail. “I don’t think it was murder, because murder is when a person kills another person without justified reason.”...
“Yes, I did tell the police upon my arrest that this was an act of retaliation, and not a reaction on the soldiers personally,” Muhammad said. He called it “a act, for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military.”
In the interview, Muhammad also disputed his lawyer’s claim that he had been “radicalized” in a Yemeni prison and said fellow prisoners that some call terrorists were actually “very good Muslim brothers.”
He also said he didn’t specifically plan the shootings that morning.
“It’s been on my mind for awhile. It wasn’t nothing planned really. It was just the heat of the moment, you know,” said Muhammad, who was arrested on a highway shortly after the attack....
Muhammad, 23, said he wanted revenge for claims that American military personnel had desecrated copies of the Quran...”
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Suspect in Soldier Attack Was Once Detained in Yemen (The almost forgotten terrorist attack)
NY Times ^ | 6/3/2009 | JAMES DAO and DAVID JOHNSTON
Posted on January 7, 2010 2:57:29 PM PST by tobyhill
A 23-year-old man charged with killing one soldier and seriously wounding another in a shooting outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., was once detained in Yemen for possessing a fake Somali passport and other counterfeit documents, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
The episode in Yemen prompted a preliminary inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other American law enforcement agencies into whether the man, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, had ties to extremist groups, the officials said. But that investigation was inconclusive, they said, leaving the bureau with insufficient evidence to wiretap his phone or put him under surveillance.
It is not clear when Mr. Muhammad, an American convert to Islam who was traveling on a valid United States passport, was detained in Yemen or why he would have been carrying counterfeit documents. His detention in Yemen was first reported Tuesday by ABC News.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/yemen/index?tab=articles
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2434524/posts
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/little-rock-shooter-attack-was-justified-according-to-islamic-laws-and-the-islamic-religion-jihad-—.html
(NY TIMES, January 21, 2010)
“Little Rock shooter: Attack was “justified according to Islamic Laws and the Islamic Religion. Jihad — to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims.””
(Posted January 22, 2010)
SNIPPET: “MEMPHIS — A Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based affiliate of Al Qaeda.
In a letter to the judge presiding over his case, the accused killer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, calls himself a soldier in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula...”
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http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/jan/22/prosecutor-wont-waive-death-penalty-gi-shootings/
(AP)
“Prosecutor: Won’t waive death penalty in GI shootings”
By By Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press
SNIPPET: “Muhammad has sent a letter to the judge in his case asking to change his plea to guilty. In the two-page, handwritten letter, Muhammad claims that he is affiliated with an al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen.
“My lawyer has no defense,” Muhammad wrote in the two-page letter, dated Jan. 12. “I wasn’t insane or post-traumatic nor was I forced to do this act.””
JIHAD WATCH.org (NY TIMES, January 21, 2010): "LITTLE ROCK SHOOTER: Attack was "justified according to Islamic Laws and the Islamic Religion. Jihad -- to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims."") (SNIPPET: "In a letter to the judge presiding over his case, the accused killer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, calls himself a soldier in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula...") (Posted January 22, 2010)
ARKANSASonline.com (AP): "PROSECUTOR: WON'T WAIVE DEATH PENALTY IN GI SHOOTINGS" (SNIPPET: "Muhammad has sent a letter to the judge in his case asking to change his plea to guilty. In the two-page, handwritten letter, Muhammad claims that he is affiliated with an al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen. "My lawyer has no defense," Muhammad wrote in the two-page letter, dated Jan. 12. "I wasn't insane or post-traumatic nor was I forced to do this act."") (January 22, 2010)
MILITARY.com (AP): Little Rock, Arkansas - "SUSPECT IN GI KILLING: 'EYE FOR AN EYE'" (SNIPPET: "Muhammad told the AP he admitted to his actions to police and said he was retaliating against the U.S. military. "Yes, I did tell the police upon my arrest that this was an act of retaliation, and not a reaction on the Soldiers personally," Muhammad said. He called it "a act, for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military."") (June 10, 2009)
BLACK HILLS PORTAL.com: "MEDIA BLACKOUT ON DOMESTIC TERRORIST AND FUNERAL OF WAR HERO Victim of Domestic Terrorist Laid to Rest" by Jim Kouri, CPP (SNIPPET: "There were many in attendance from the US military and the law enforcement community to pay their final respects to a fallen soldier -- the first killed on American soil by a terrorist since September 11, 2001.")
ABC NEWS.go.com - Exclusive: "FBI PROBES MUHAMMAD'S TIES TO OHIO MOSQUE FBI Wants to Know If Ohio Mosque Has Link to Terror" by Richard Esposito, Pierre Thomas and Jack Date (PAGE 2 - Snippet: "His travels to Yemen are another promising area of investigation by the FBI and to other intelligence agencies. While in Yemen it is believed that Muhammad attended the Damaj Institute, an Islamic institute attended by a number of radicalized U.S. converts, which was once attended by John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" captured in Afghanistan.") (June 4, 2009)
ABC NEWS.go.com: "RECRUITER SHOOTING SUSPECT UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION" by Richard Esposito, Pierre Thomas and Jack Date (SNIPPET: "The investigation was in its preliminary stages, authorities said, and was based on the suspect's travel to Yemen and his arrest there for using a Somali passport." SNIPPET: "According to sources, the suspect advised them that he was going to kill as many Army personnel as possible.") (June 1, 2009)
KATV.com: Little Rock, Arkansas - "SHOOTER, VICTIMS IDENTIFIED IN WEST LR SHOOTING" (SNIPPET: "At a briefing Monday afternoon, Little Rock police chief Stuart Thomas identified the suspect as Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, of Little Rock. Thomas says Muhammad also goes by the name Carlos Bledsoe.") (Posted June 1, 2009, 3:17 pm)
http://www.swtimes.com/news/article_d3dbb704-5f68-11df-b251-001cc4c002e0.html
“State Must Foot Defense Bill”
By John Lyon
Arkansas News Bureau
SNIPPET: “LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Public Defenders Commission must pay the expenses of defending Abdul-Hakim Muhammad against charges he killed one soldier and wounded another outside a military recruiting center in Little Rock, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The court dismissed the commission’s appeal of Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright’s order requiring the commission to pay the “reasonable and necessary” expenses of Muhammad’s defense.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2537008/posts
Recruiting Center Shooting Suspect Accused of Stabbing Inmate to Death (terrorist Muhammad)
My Eye Witness News ^ | 6/10/10
Posted on June 17, 2010 6:50:59 PM PDT by Libloather
Recruiting Center Shooting Suspect Accused of Stabbing Inmate to Death
Reported by: Associated Press
Last Update: 6/10 5:29 pm
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A prosecutor says a man accused of fatally shooting a soldier outside a recruiting center now faces charges stemming from an alleged attack on another inmate at the Pulaski County Jail.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Johnson said Thursday that battery and weapons charges were filed earlier this month against Abdulhakim (ahb-DOOL hah-KEEM) Muhammad, accusing him of assaulting an inmate with a weapon fashioned out of eyeglasses. Muhammad was charged in April with a similar attack on a jail guard.
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Man accused on recruiting center rampage targeted Kentucky (Muhammad may need a new lawyer)
WKYT ^ | 7/28/10
Posted on July 29, 2010 8:39:46 PM PDT by Libloather
Man accused on recruiting center rampage targeted Kentucky
Posted: 11:51 AM Jul 28, 2010
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The man charged with killing one soldier and wounding another outside a Little Rock recruiting center says he tried and failed to carry out other attacks.
The claim by Abdulhakim Muhammad is in a report filed Tuesday by a state doctor who examined Muhammad and says he’s fit to stand trial.
The report says Muhammad claims to have tried to firebomb the home of an unidentified rabbi in Nashville, Tenn. It also says he claims to have targeted an Army recruiting center in Florence, Ky., but it was closed when he arrived.
Muhammad is charged with capital murder, attempted capital murder and 11 other counts for the June 1, 2009, shooting outside a west Little Rock recruiting center. His attorney didn’t comment on the report.
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Accused soldier shooter may need new lawyer
Updated: Jul 08, 2010 8:30 AM EDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A lawyer for the man accused of killing a soldier at a Little Rock military recruiting center may have to resign from the case because he is running for judge in Tennessee.
Claiborne Ferguson said Wednesday that he isn’t certain if he is barred from continuing to represent Abdulhakim Muhammad if he is elected to a judgeship in Memphis. In Arkansas, judges have to stop private practice but Ferguson says he’s looking into whether he can be a Tennessee and represent a client in Arkansas.
Muhammad is charged with capital murder for the slaying of Pvt. William Long and is charged with wounding another soldier.
Muhammad told the AP after his arrest that killing American soldiers is justified because the U.S. is at war with Muslims.
http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=12772500
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“Murder suspect says he wanted to start terror cell”
Published May 21, 2011
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. –
SNIPPET: “In his latest letter to a Pulaski County judge, Abdulhakim Muhammad says those were his plans after he was deported back to the U.S. from Yemen in early 2009. He’d been in prison in Yemen for immigration violations. Muhammad was born in Tennessee.”
SNIPPET: “Muhammad is accused in the Little Rock shootings that killed Army Pvt. William Long and wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula.”
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