Shooting suspect 'radicalized' in jail

Washington Times ^ | June 5, 2009 | Jon Gambrell

[Jet Jaguar]

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. | 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 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, Mr. 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?" Mr. 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 office in Nashville, Tenn., referred calls to a spokesman in Memphis, who was not in his office Thursday. Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley did not immediately respond to a call for comment.

Mr. Muhammad has pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge in the death Monday of Army Pvt. William Long. Another soldier, Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula, was wounded in the attack. Mr. Hensley said his client stood by his plea and said Mr. Muhammad wanted to hold a news conference or issue a statement to "explain himself."

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[Freedom2specul8]

Thank you jet jaguar!!

Ping for pingers...

[Freedom2specul8]

Starwise, I can’t remember if you have used your pinglist for terrorist issues or not...

[Cheetahcat]

So what he listened to People who behave like savages he should die like one,I see nothing redeeming in this statement that would have me vote for for anything but the death penalty with an Axe! Wait a Minute we are civilized Use a Chainsaw.

[mathurine]

The wretch makes me retch.

[Freedom2specul8]

FyI...

[Navy Patriot]

I'm relieved to find out that it's our fault.

For a while there I thought this guy was a terrorist.

[SunkenCiv]

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 Associated Press on Thursday.

There's more than one way to release someone from jail -- just sayin'...

[Freedom2specul8]

I guess I misunderstood earlier reports, I thought he was in a US prison, and was converted there... Do you know what he was arrested in yemen for?

This just gets crazier!

[MrB]

Yeah, but our Boy King stated that this was a

“SENSELESS act of violence”.

IE, nothing to see here, folks, just some random shooting with no larger context, let’s move along and forget it.

[rjsimmon]

So, it is America's fault. Who drove his sorry back-side to Yemen?

Did not Malcolm X find his Moslem faith in prison? I do not recall Malcolm shooting any recruiters.

He made his own choices. He needs to suffer the consequences.

[Nachum]

Heard about his background. This problem won’t go away.

[raygunfan]

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[Colonel Kangaroo]

The guy left out the blame that goes to the pro-life movement.

[Coldwater Creek]

Passport violations.

[codercpc]

Naive Government question here, but does the FBI even have any jurisdiction to help in a Yemeni Prison? Wouldn’t that be the CIA?

[STARWISE]

~~PING!

[Freedom2specul8]

I’m going to go back and reread the articles about his background. I obviously read too fast.. Thanks Coldwater Creek.

[Freedom2specul8]

Obama made a comment about this? I missed that too.