Suspect in Custody for 'Suspicious' Backpack Is Marine Corps Reservist

Fox News ^ | Published June 17, 2011

[CitizenM]

DEVELOPING: The man in custody for carrying a backpack with "suspicious items and products" inside Arlington National Cemetery overnight is a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, military and law enforcement sources tell Fox News.

Yonathan Melaku, a Lance Corporal Marine corps reservist who lives in Virginia and who is Muslim, has been identified as the suspect in custody, Fox News has learned.

Sources close to the investigation also said a notebook believed to belong to the man was found containing threatening phrases like "Al Qaeda," "Taliban rule" and "defeated coalition forces."

[BykrBayb]

Bush's fault

♪ Obama's gonna change it ♪

Everybody sing!

[BykrBayb]

True, but the terrorists have their agents working overtime to keep them in power.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And I was just reading an article how it’s against TSA policy to racial profile. So what is this now: Example # 123,456,566,543?? How many more examples do we need before libs wake up to the fact that my 94 year old granny isn’t going to yell Allahu Akabar? That maybe, just maaaybe it may be that 23 year old dude named Mohammed?

[Gondring]

True. When we have to recruit anyone we can find to fight our wars the decline has begun...

In the last decade, we had to reduce standards to record lows, give waivers to felons, and offer record-high signing bonuses to come close to meeting the recruitment goals.

"Fortunately," our economy crashed, so we've been able to more easily recruit without those things.

[Gondring]

Bush's fault

♪ Obama's gonna change it ♪

Sing what you want, but it wasn't President Obama who created/changed it...Blame Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, et al., for collapsing the economy (which has made recruiting easier).

I do put a large part of the blame on President Bush, though, for remaining aloof and not addressing those things that made the war so unpopular (and, thus, hard to recruit for). As one example, he could have helped the military immensely by accepting Donald Rumsfeld's resignation rather than continue to have him blather in denial about there being no insurgency while the whole world (and the general right next to him) knew how ridiculous the claim was.

[Gondring]

What makes you think he’s Shia and not Sunni?

[BykrBayb]

That was sarcasm. It doesn’t mean that I agree with you, or that I’m actually singing along with you. I’ve just seen you singing Obama’s praises and blaming Bush for so long, I have your song memorized.

[Gondring]

GrandJediMasterYoda>>How many more examples do we need before libs wake up to the fact that my 94 year old granny isn’t going to yell Allahu Akabar? That maybe, just maaaybe it may be that 23 year old dude named Mohammed?

I bet Daisey King didn't yell Allahu Akbar.
Anne Mary Murphy surely didn't yell Allahu Akbar.

Some of these folks might have shouted it at their mosques, however...

Humayun Saqib Muazzam Khan
Born United Arab Emirates
Pakistani heritage

... told his men to "hit the dirt" and stopped suicide bombers himself

Ayman Abdelrahman Taha
Sudanese-born, son of Abdel Rahman and Amal Ali Taha

US Special Forces, doctoral candidate UMass.

Among many honors, earned two Bronze Stars for Valor in the Battle of Baghdad. Left behind wife and 1-1/2 year old daughter.

Oh, wait...dang it, that Irish name... yep, he was Caucasian. Okay.

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
Son of Feroze Khan

Age 14 on 9/11
Enlisted immediately after high-school graduation, wanting to show that Muslims aren't all fanatics.

anton>>The military should kick every one of those filthy Muzzies out. Islam and military values are mutually exclusive.

Well, I suppose Gen. Patton would have been upset with them for dying for their country...*

American can't be great unless we force people to reveal their religious views. Of course, some would say that won't work because of taqiyya and kitman, so we have to go by ethnicity. Oh, but that doesn't get everyone because there are more Muslims outside of Arabia than there. So, we must . . .
</sarc>

(And note, I recognize that this might very well have been a trial run...or a schizophrenic break, an overblown report, or something else.)

*I say, 'requiescat in pace' and 'thank you', sacrificing warriors!"

[Gondring]

I don't think I've sung President Obama's praises a single time, except perhaps that he allowed the completion of the OBL operation, and perhaps other times that he has gone against his core anti-American principles.

As for President Bush, I believe my criticisms of him as being too liberal have withstood the short bit of history available.

I think it's also very evident that getting a far-leftist anti-American with the names Hussein and Obama into the White House would never have occurred without the terrible blunders and unpopularity of his predecessor.

[Henry Hnyellar]

Yes, but can they dance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzcYerwE4s&feature=related

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Criminal waivers soared under George W. Bush, but plunged again after Barack Obama took office."

This is not a new phenomenon. When I served, I knew a number of guys who had went before a judge and were given a choice of doing jail time or going into the Corps. Now, it was usually misdemeanor stuff and minimal time in jail like perhaps 30 days, but still it was jail. Some kid caught doing auto thefts would have had no problems getting in during the 70's and 80's. Now days they have tightened things up considerably because (thank goodness) there are so many more citizens signing up for the services. Heck, even the Marine Corps has waiting lists to get to boot camp of months. It used to be you could sign up one day, take the physical and go to boot camp the next. Not anymore.

[Gondring]

The problem has been known and studied for a while, and continues to be studied. For example, 15 years ago, they found that nearly half of Navy recruits had a criminal record, and those with criminal records had much higher rates of attrition.

During the Iraq War, though, they soared--including felons. From 2006 to 2007, the number of active-duty felony recruits more than doubled for the Army, and nearly doubled for the Marines. And the 2006 rates were more than double the rates early in the Iraq War.

It's largely a function of the economy, but it's more than that.

[a fool in paradise]

Islam is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder codified. If you fart, you have to start your cleaning prayers all over again...

He can be deranged AND a follower of the religion of pieces’ Imperialist brigade.

[a fool in paradise]

He’s “not a terrorist” yet the AZ shooter was used to smear the entire Tea Party movement. The media and the Obama administration LIE.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The problem has been known and studied for a while, and continues to be studied."

If you look at history, many great armies were filled with criminals. The Romans, the British Army and Navy both during their great empire of the 17th - 19th century. The French Foreign Legion is probably the most celebrated of armies who take criminals though not as much anymore.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Oh Jeez or should I say oh Allahu Akabar, you are taking one thing completely out of context to fit another. If it was the IRA I would be screaming that the TSA check out every Sean O’Malley or Laird McGowan that crosses into USA territory, but it’s not the Irish, it’s the Islamos, usually of Middle eastern heritage. No, it’s not usually: It’s 100% of the time Middle eastern heritage.

Quick; Name the last one who wasn’t...Timothy McVeigh?? If it was white Irish, the IRA or any other group doing this over and over and over and over, guess what? It means most likely that same profiled group would try it again.

So what is the freaking difference? You are taking something completely out of context to put a bias slant on it which is why people will get killed again because of that liberal illogical mentality that EVERY group has the equal potential to do a bombing. I stated how many examples do we need? If it was the Amish doing this I would say profile every Amish in two seconds.

[Gondring]

No, it’s not usually: It’s 100% of the time Middle eastern heritage.

Quick; Name the last one who wasn’t...Timothy McVeigh??

Richard C. Reid
British citizen, born in south London
British mother, Jamaican father

[cricket]

Being a Marine, is one thing. Being a Muslim terror wannabe, makes one something else, altogether. Just give the perps name; and his crime and stop referencing this piece of ex-humanity, a Marine. Or at least, give his name and MO, first. . .