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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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To: kingattax
Are you familiar with the Christian militants?" she asked former New York Dept. of Correctional Services official Patrick Dunleavy. "Can one might say that they might possibly want to undermine this country because right now the right for women to choose is a Constitutional right but people disagree with it but here is an individual trying to undermine the protections that are given to women? Would you suggest that might be compared to trying to undermine this country? That's a possibility, is it not?

Lee actually spoke up today, about this issue. She says that this event PROVES HER POINT, because the near-terrorism happened in a PREDOMINENTLY CHRISTIAN nation.

41 posted on 06/17/2011 8:58:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Lazamataz
Preciously arrested. Gay cops?
42 posted on 06/17/2011 8:59:04 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Lazamataz

This fella’ lived not far from here over in an area we call Franconia. Everybody there has an Alexandria address although it’s part of Fairfax County. Sounds like Kingstowne Subdivision.


43 posted on 06/17/2011 8:59:24 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Lazamataz

Preciously arrested.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

And you guffawed when I said “they handle these guys with kid gloves”.


44 posted on 06/17/2011 8:59:43 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) Time to clean House (and Senate) again. Incumbents begone!!)
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To: Lazamataz

I read “suspicious package” and automatically thought of a particular Congresscritter from New York who just (allegedly) resigned his seat.

Sorry, carry on.


45 posted on 06/17/2011 9:00:09 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Paladin2

Something it has in common with liberalism.


46 posted on 06/17/2011 9:00:54 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: muawiyah

Thanks.


47 posted on 06/17/2011 9:01:02 AM PDT by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: Lazamataz

Sheila said that? This area is predominantly Moslem and Buddhist if anything. Christians are actually in the miority ~ Sheila, BTW, is probably “too white” to walk safely in the area ~ people would turn out to gawk at her and hope by staring she’d be encouraged to just go away.


48 posted on 06/17/2011 9:02:57 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: absolootezer0

Are they sue he is not Amish?

driving a car. more likely a lutheran.


Missouri Synod no less.


49 posted on 06/17/2011 9:02:57 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy (Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
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To: Lazamataz

sounds about right from a dope like her.

where else except being in congress could someone like her with mud for brains be making over 100K a year ?


50 posted on 06/17/2011 9:03:51 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: Paladin2


51 posted on 06/17/2011 9:05:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; xrmusn


52 posted on 06/17/2011 9:07:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: muawiyah; kingattax
No, I made it up.

But the scary part is, Sheila Jackson Lee is so nutty, you actually wondered if she did.

53 posted on 06/17/2011 9:09:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: CitizenM
S J S

Sudden Jihad Syndrome

54 posted on 06/17/2011 9:10:04 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: relee
News 4 said there was spray paint in the backpack.

Spray paint is used against surveillance cameras.

55 posted on 06/17/2011 9:17:37 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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Question: The police noticed this car parked last night in an area near the Pentigon. Was the guy in the car then, was it abandoned, and/or did they go to his house and find him (by checking the license plate/registration info.)? Either way, what the heck was his car doing being parked where it was, obviously not a normal place for it to be? Good for the police who were alert and observant
56 posted on 06/17/2011 9:21:20 AM PDT by CitizenM (If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.-Ronald Re)
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To: CitizenM
Ok someone with a military background help me out.

My buddy joined the Air Force and I was interviewed in person even though my friend was across the country.

It was a background check in person. He is white, never committed a crime, never got a speeding ticket and never smoked a cigarette or done any drugs.

However, a jihadist can join the marines??? No insult to the marines because if it weren't for the marines we'd all be speaking Japanese or be dead, but the leadership needs to get their heads checked.

If this is another case of political correctness gone wild we need Congressional hearings ASAP!!!

57 posted on 06/17/2011 9:27:51 AM PDT by Dengar01 ("Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" - Dr. Michael Savage)
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To: CitizenM

As far as I can tell, he was arrested inside Arlington National Cemetery early this morning, when it was closed to visitors. Then they found his car just outside the Cemetery. There is no parking there, on Washington Blvd, so his car was parked off the road and in some brush. Across the street from the car is the north side of the Pentagon.


58 posted on 06/17/2011 9:38:03 AM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Lazamataz
Right. To deliberately disuade people from thinking Islamic terrorists are to blame. Without a shred of evidence one way or the other.

That's the initial statement every single time - and it's usually false.

Any bets on whether or not this guy did it on his own?

59 posted on 06/17/2011 9:39:48 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: Lazamataz

laz,

do you remember when she was at NASA watching the camera feed when the Mars probe had landed and she asked:

“are we gonna see the flag that the astronauts planted ?”

LOL ...what a maroon.


60 posted on 06/17/2011 9:41:39 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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