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Suspect in Soldier’s Fatal Shooting at Recruiting Station Appears in Court
Yahoo News ^ | June 1, 2009 | NOAH TRISTER

Posted on 06/02/2009 10:06:59 AM PDT by Mozilla

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Muslim convert who already was under federal investigation pleaded not guilty Tuesday in what police called a likely "political and religious" attack that killed a young soldier at a military recruiting center.

Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, of Little Rock, was charged in Monday's death of Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway outside an Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center. He pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge and was ordered held without bail.

A prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past."

An FBI-led joint terrorism task force based in the southern United States has been investigating Muhammad since he returned to the United States from Yemen, a law enforcement official said. The suspect had been arrested and jailed in Yemen at some point for using a Somali passport, the official said. The time of that arrest was not immediately clear.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Harris said no decision has been made on whether to pursue federal charges against Muhammad. "We're consulting with a lot of people on what, if any, charges can be filed against him," Harris said.

The suspect's father, Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tenn., hung up on a reporter who called about his son's arrest Monday night.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: bledsoe; murder; muslim; soldier; terrorism; williamlong

1 posted on 06/02/2009 10:06:59 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Mozilla

Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Harris said no decision has been made on whether to pursue federal charges against Muhammad. “We’re consulting with a lot of people on what, if any, charges can be filed against him,” Harris said.

WHAT????????


2 posted on 06/02/2009 10:10:25 AM PDT by jdietz ("There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged" Ben Franklin)
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To: Mozilla
The suspect's father, Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tenn., hung up on a reporter who called about his son's arrest Monday night.



The parents must be so proud.
3 posted on 06/02/2009 10:11:14 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Mozilla

My opinion on how we MUST deal with these %^*&^5 ^%&^% +_)(*)(_)_()**(^%&*^%&^()**&*% )&&%^%$ Black T*(^(*^7 Fu*&^*(&^) mother*(&^%&*%&^ (*&())_(+_ bastards, would get me banned for life and arrested by the ()*_&*( Feds.

We have become FAR too civilized to exist as a free Republic for very much longer........


4 posted on 06/02/2009 10:12:04 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat

With Obama as President the United States is becoming submissive.


5 posted on 06/02/2009 10:14:46 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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"Yes, i'm a coward when it comes to defending our Soldiers. If we pursue this on a federal level there could be a backlash from our muslim brothers in the next election ... and no this wasn't a terrorist act ... it's a religious issue .... next question "
6 posted on 06/02/2009 10:20:57 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Mozilla
JOIN THE FREEPER OPERATION in getting Obama to condemn the Muslim killing of our troops AT HOME!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262932/posts

7 posted on 06/02/2009 10:23:15 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: Mozilla

Everyone needs to bring down the house on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who disgustingly fought against Hate Crimes legislation for those who attack our military.

Call this witch’s Washington office and bring thunderbolts on this trashy RAT.

202-225-7931


8 posted on 06/02/2009 10:34:41 AM PDT by NoobRep
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To: Mozilla

How about a photo of the perp, and a photo of the victim?


9 posted on 06/02/2009 10:36:06 AM PDT by Mamzelle (BRING CAMERA EQUIP TO TEA PARTIES--TAPE THE DISRUPTORS)
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To: DCBryan1
JOIN THE FREEPER OPERATION in getting Obama to condemn the Muslim killing of our troops AT HOME!

Has Obama said anything to condemn this act of terrorism by a Muslim? If the FBI had the guy under surveillance, it seems that their surveillance did nothing to prevent this act of terrorism by a Muslim.

10 posted on 06/02/2009 10:40:53 AM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: Mozilla

Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2009/06/police-shooter-at-recruiting-center.html


11 posted on 06/02/2009 10:43:13 AM PDT by traderrob6
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“. The suspect had been arrested and jailed in Yemen at some point for using a Somali passport, the official said. The time of that arrest was not immediately clear.”
________

Do you recall recently the stories about the young Somali ‘immigrants’ who had turned jihad and their passports?

Where did this kid get a Somali passport if he ‘acted alone’?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461865,00.html

[snip] Dozens of young Somali men in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have disappeared in recent months, causing community members and U.S. intelligence officials to fear that they are joining jihadist groups in Somalia......The intelligence source said there is a transportation network in place to move fighters to Somalia, including Ruben Luis Shumpert (a Seattle-area barber who was killed this year while fighting for the Shabaab) and Daniel Joseph Maldonado (a U.S. citizen who was arrested in 2007 for undergoing terrorist training). The network apparently has provided forged passports on some occasions, he said.

U.S. Importing Somali ‘Pirate-Jihadists’
[snip]The Obama administration is preparing to reinstate a fraud-riddled immigration program that has brought over 36,000 Somalis into the United States under questionable circumstances, including two dozen Minneapolis men that the FBI fears may be planning a terrorist attack.

The FBI has launched an “aggressive” manhunt for the men, who have “gone to ground” and have mysteriously disappeared, terrorism experts tell Newsmax. Authorities fear the men may have been recruited by extremists to carry out suicide attacks inside the United States, or abroad.

Critics of the State Department programs that brought the Somalis to America express grave concerns about the practice of admitting refugees from failed nation-states known to harbor extremists.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246064/posts

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Feds investigating Twin Cities terrorist network (MN)

kstp.com ^ | 11-26-08 | Nicole Muehlhausen & Michelle Knoll
Forty young Somali men from the Twin Cities are missing and federal investigators believe they may be back in Somalia training as terrorists. “We have active Al Qaeda cells recruiting these people,” said Omar Jamal with the Somali Justice Advocacy Center. Federal law enforcement sources told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS they believe Shirwa Ahmed, from Minneapolis, was a suicide bomber who blew himself up during an attack in northern Somali last month. They also believe he was a recruiter in the Twin Cities for a terrorist network.[snip]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138688/posts


12 posted on 06/02/2009 10:43:56 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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The feds are debating whether to file charges. Murder isn't usually a federal crime, though in this case it may be.
13 posted on 06/02/2009 10:48:46 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (28 shopping days to Graybeard58's 64th. b/day. Selah.)
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Harris said no decision has been made on whether to pursue federal charges against Muhammad. "We're consulting with a lot of people on what, if any, charges can be filed against him," Harris said.

I second your "WHAT???" The feds are no longer interested in Muslim terrorist acts, they have their hands full protecting abortionist and rooting out pro life subversives?? Ok, taken together with the Obama support of Iran pursuing nuclear technology, the sale of Hummer to China, the ignoring of North Korean provocation, the GM, Chrysler and Health Plan fiasco, I am really scared.

I got a couple of News Letters back from my congresscritters in place of any comment on my complaints. I guess they are voting "absent".

14 posted on 06/02/2009 10:48:46 AM PDT by JimSEA
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If nothing else, this POS destroyed government property when he killed the soldier. Federal offense.
15 posted on 06/02/2009 11:10:03 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological Narcissist as president.")
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To: jdietz

jdietz,

Exactly.

Where in W.Va.?


16 posted on 06/02/2009 12:12:13 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Mozilla
I truly wish we had the power to punish a scum bag like this. My preferred method would be to castrate him, leave him in a cell for a year and then execute him as a terrorist. Alternative send him to Cuba with out hope of a reprieve. Amen.
17 posted on 06/02/2009 1:03:06 PM PDT by gakrak
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