Posted on 06/02/2009 8:36:19 PM PDT by kristinn
A senior U.S. official tells FOX News that more targets were found on computer of a man charged in the fatal shooting Monday at a military recruiting center in Arkansas suggesting that the shooter may have been part of a larger plot to attack military targets and may not have been acting alone.
It wasn't immediately clear, however, how extensive that plot was or what evidence authorities have that suggests that more suspects were involved. The U.S. official's information contradicted a local police official's denial earlier Tuesday that the shooting was part of a larger conspiracy.
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, pleaded not guilty to capital murder Tuesday and was ordered held without bond.
One soldier died and another was wounded in what police say was a targeted attack on U.S. forces by a convert to Islam accused of having "political and religious motives."
Muhammad, who previously was known as Carlos Bledsoe, already had been under investigation by the FBI at the time of the shootings.
Muhammad was charged in Monday's death of Pvt. William Long, 23, outside the Army-Navy Career Center, which handles recruiting, in Little Rock.
A prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past."
Long and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, had recently completed basic training and had never seen combat. Ezeagwula was in stable condition at a hospital.
An FBI joint terrorism task force based in the southern U.S. reportedly had been tracking Muhammad after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested and jailed there for using a Somali passport, an official told The Associated Press. The probe had been in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, ABC News reported.
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OTOH with crazies on BOTH sides and BO angering his base, the O better think twice about their theater trips. There is a reason the presidents have built everything they enjoy within the walls of the WH. He’d better get a brain.
Nothing happens in Islam without the Mullah's blessing.
Most Rat politicians have made a statement on the murder of the distinguished Dr. Tiller. I used that category to tell my Senators that they and Totus had done nothing about the murder of a soldier by a Jihadist in the USA.
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Officers found maps to Jewish organizations, a Baptist church, a child care center, a post office and military recruiting centers in the southeastern U.S., New York and Philadelphia, according to a joint FBI-Homeland Security intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press
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A day late, but CNN’s finally on it:
FBI: Arkansas suspect researched locations in U.S. cities
Story Highlights
Jewish groups, Baptist church, child care center among locations, source says
Suspect researched locations on Internet, authorities say
Suspect in soldier’s shooting death angry at Muslims’ treatment, police say
Abdulhakim Muhammad has pleaded not guilty to charges in Arkansas shootings
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/03/arkansas.shooting/
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