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Suspect in Custody for 'Suspicious' Backpack Is Marine Corps Reservist
Fox News ^ | Published June 17, 2011

Posted on 06/17/2011 8:29:21 AM PDT by CitizenM

Edited on 06/17/2011 9:37:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: africanamerican; alqaeda; arlingtoncemetery; barackmuslim; blackmuslims; fairfaxcounty; fifthcolumn; jihadinamerica; melaku; muslims; obama; proterrorist; terrorism; traitor; treason; virginia
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1 posted on 06/17/2011 8:29:25 AM PDT by CitizenM
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"...and a muslim."

Are they sue he is not Amish?

2 posted on 06/17/2011 8:31:32 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CitizenM

Another poor innocent victim of Sudden Jihadi Syndrome....


3 posted on 06/17/2011 8:31:32 AM PDT by neodad (Don't Tap, Just Drill!)
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The police have described him as "a derranged man," but do not think he is part of a terrorist group. The guy is 22/23 years old, an African American, and a muslim.

Well that's a relief!

4 posted on 06/17/2011 8:32:11 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Paladin2

sue —> sure


5 posted on 06/17/2011 8:32:20 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: HIDEK6

Islam is a mental disorder.


6 posted on 06/17/2011 8:33:06 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CitizenM

He looks like a skinny from Somalia.


7 posted on 06/17/2011 8:33:24 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Paladin2
Are they sue he is not Amish?

driving a car. more likely a lutheran.
8 posted on 06/17/2011 8:34:29 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: CitizenM

Deranged....Muslim......redundant......


9 posted on 06/17/2011 8:34:32 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Financial Repression.......it answers a lot of questions.....read about it on FinancialSense.com.)
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“...and a muslim. “

A sure indicator of derangement.


10 posted on 06/17/2011 8:34:45 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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".....do not think he is part of a terrorist group"

Yeah, right! Funny how they announce that the guy is not a terrorist before they have any information to support it.

Stinking media...

11 posted on 06/17/2011 8:36:56 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: CitizenM

Imagine that a “muslim”,....must have been on his way to meet the famous 72 virgins.


12 posted on 06/17/2011 8:37:15 AM PDT by gitmogrunt
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And the police are completely compliant with this ‘not a terrorist’ meme.


13 posted on 06/17/2011 8:38:06 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: absolootezer0

Did they stick him in a line-up of grammars and babies in strollers?


14 posted on 06/17/2011 8:38:27 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CitizenM

I was not surprised to hear his name. Just another innocent muslim out for a stroll.


15 posted on 06/17/2011 8:38:42 AM PDT by mardi59
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To: OB1kNOb

For sure!


16 posted on 06/17/2011 8:39:11 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: CitizenM
and a muslim.

Naw.....

17 posted on 06/17/2011 8:39:25 AM PDT by TomServo
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from the Fox website:

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.

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Law enforcement officials also told Fox News that police found five pounds of a substance labeled ammonium nitrate inside the backpack — field tests, however, came back negative. A notebook was also found containing threatening phrases like “Al Qaeda” and “Taliban rule” and “defeated coalition forces,” the officials said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/17/suspicious-vehicle-shuts-down-several-major-roads-near-pentagon/#ixzz1PY079SF8


18 posted on 06/17/2011 8:39:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: TomServo

A RESERVIST and a Muslim.


19 posted on 06/17/2011 8:40:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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..is a Marine Lance Corporal Reservist

BS.

20 posted on 06/17/2011 8:41:12 AM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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