[BBC] A 20-year-old US citizen has been charged with attempting to explode a boom-mobile at Fort Riley in Manhattan, Kansas.John T Booker Jr was making final preparations to carry out the suicide kaboom on behalf of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS), the FBI said.
Mr Booker previously had tried to join the Army, but was denied entry because of internet posts about "jihad".
Authorities say that US personnel were never in danger.
He is the latest American to be nabbed
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
for attempted support of IS. Two reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
men were arrested in late March for attempting to provide material support to the organization. In earlier this month two women in New York City were arrested on suspicion of planning to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Booker, also known as Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, enlisted in the military "with the intent to commit an insider attack against American soldiers," according to the FBI complaint.
He had "formulated several plans for committing jihad once enlisted", including shooting soldiers on the firing range and kidnapping a high-ranking officer.
| PJMedia has the background of his interactions with the FBI here, though the writer gets a bit overexcited against the FBI, it seems to me. |