Posted on 01/26/2010 4:20:58 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) -- A call from a convenience store clerk about a suspicious person led to an arrest and a frightening discovery: The man was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a loaded assault rifle and four magazines of ammunition.
Back in the man's motel room, authorities found a grenade launcher, more rifles, a night-vision scope and, ominously, a map of the Fort Drum Army base in upstate New York.
Prosecutors have not said what 43-year-old Lloyd Woodson was doing with the arsenal. The FBI said Woodson did not appear to have any connection to terrorist groups.
But the weapons and the map raised questions about whether the former Navy man may have been planning some kind of attack.
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If this guy has a history of spending time in one of our prisons and has recently changed his religion, well I won’t speculate till the facts come out
Not to mention his red and white checked Keffiyah arab head scarf.
Attack On U.S. Military Installation Averted By Arrest?
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19379
Fort Drum? I guess he wanted to be cold and shovel lots of snow.
And Clinton banned personal weapons on base ....
Just put him in a field and turn loose the 10th Mountain Division.
26 January 2010: Lloyd R. WOODSON, 43, having a last known address in Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia was arrested early Monday after police responded to a “suspicious person” call to a Quick Chek convenience store located on Route 28 in Somerset County, New Jersey. The caller to the police stated that a Black male, dressed in military fatigues, was acting suspicious at approximately 3:55 a.m. When police arrived and began to interview WOODSON, he ran from the officers, who found him hiding in the brush in a nearby trailer park. During a search of WOODSON, police found him wearing a bullet proof vest and was carrying a weapon modified to shoot .50 caliber ammunition under his coat.
What police investigators found next caused significant alarm among law enforcement and Joint Terrorism Task Force personnel, suggesting perhaps an attack on a U.S. military installation was being planned.
According to an interview conducted late Monday by this investigator with a central New Jersey law enforcement source familiar with this investigation, WOODSON checked in to the Red Mill Inn, 3400 State Route 22, Branchburg, New Jersey last week. A search of his hotel room found a large cache of weapons, ammunition and maps, along with other items that could indicate his ties to radical Islam and an Islamic group based in the U.S.
A search of WOODSON’s room found a second bullet proof vest, a 37-mm Cobray grenade launcher, a Bushmaster .308-caliber semi-automatic rifle with a defaced serial number, hundreds of.50-caliber and .308-caliber ammunition including hollow points, a rifle mountable night vision scope, a police scanner, a military-style backpack, and various military pouches and garrison equipment.
Additionally, two maps, one of a U.S. military installation and a second map of an out-of-state “civilian” community were found. Among his personal belongings was a red and white traditional Middle-Eastern headdress. Authorities officially declined to identify the military installation or the “civilian community.
According to the New Jersey law enforcement source interviewed by this investigator Monday, “the map of the non-military community and other personal effects” not only associate him with “radical Islam, but also with a “militant Islamic group.”
Authorities charged WOODSON with multiple offenses, including second-degree unlawful weapons possession and fourth-degree possession of prohibited weapons. WOODSON was jailed at the Somerset County jail, and additional charges could be forthcoming with the involvement of federal authorities.
According to media reports, WOODSON is a deserter from the U.S. Navy. He joined the service in February 1988 and served aboard the USS Orion, a submarine tender, before deserting in April 1989. In 1997, WOODSON was returned to Navy custody, and was discharged in August of that year.
Additional information about WOODSON and his associates is being withheld at the request of our law enforcement source to avoid potentially compromising an ongoing and growing investigation. Additional details will be forthcoming.
See 8, from the link at 4.
We’re going to have to be the ones to protect ourselves since “O” is only into himself and has no intention of protecting America.
Figures...
AP did not report that juicy detail. Gee, wonder why.
Did this happen to be a dark-skinned Afreekin-American with a Negro dialect and desire to be a ragheaded terrorist disciple of the “Religion of Peace”?
How much you want to bet that Obama mentions this capture during his state of the union speech as an example of a success in keeping America safe....
Yes. In the 70’s we would describe him as Black.
Right. The system worked.
Smoke, flares and various tear gases are available in 37mm, I believe. For diversions, I’d imagine. Fire some of them at first responders, get them all flummoxed and running in circles.
You’d have to figure the “out of state civilian community” is Islamberg, NY. It’s 140 miles from Fort Drum, but pretty much a straight shot up I81. Why was he hanging around in New Jersey, though? From the sound of it, he wasn’t very organized. The kind of guy that makes you think he’s never really going to do it, but he sure was building towards it.
Copycat or planned, these guys number in the hundreds of thousands.
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