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John T. Booker, a 20-year-old man from Topeka, Kansas, has been arrested following an FBI investigation that began last year. Booker reportedly joined the U.S. Army last year, he admitted, specifically so that he could launch a Fort Hood-style attack on American soldiers. He was due to report for basic training on Tuesday.
Booker caught the attention of the FBI last year after allegedly posting alarming content to his FaceBook page, reported to them by an unidentified source. One of those posts read:
“Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush!!” he allegedly posted on March 19, 2014. “I am so nervous. NOT because I’m scared to die but I am eager to meet my lord.”
More, from ABC News:
The next day, FBI agents approached Booker and interviewed him, according to court documents. In that interview, he admitted he enlisted in the U.S. Army months earlier with the intent to commit an insider attack on American forces like the Ft. Hood in 2009, when Maj. Nidal Hassan killed 13 and injured dozens more, court documents show.
Seven month later, an FBI informant began engaging with Booker, and during those conversations Booker “repeatedly expressed his desire to engage in violent jihad on behalf of [ISIS],” the FBI alleges in court documents.
Specifically, on Oct. 10, 2014, Booker told the FBI informant he “joined the United States Army” and “was going to go in there and kill the American soldier,” the court documents say.
“Booker stated that he formulated several plans for committing jihad once enlisted, including firing at other soldiers while at basic training at the firing range or while at his pre-deployment military base after completing his initial military training,” according to the court documents. “Booker clarified that he did not intend to kill ‘privates,’ but that he instead wanted to target someone with power.”
UPDATE: Feds: Man joined Army with plot to carry out Ft. Hood-style attack; was set to report for basic training: http://t.co/yoKBPojF8y
— ABC News (@ABC) April 10, 2015
Booker’s arrest comes on the heels of multiple recent arrests on U.S. soil of men and women who planned to either join ISIS, or wage ISIS-inspired jihad within the United States.
Victory Girls will update should further information break.
UPDATE [11:15 Pacific] Authorities have released this photo of the suspect:
Authorities say a car-bomb attack on Fort Riley was imminent. Booker, aka Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, faces several charges including providing material support to terrorists. He faces life in prison if convicted, and is scheduled to appear in a Kansas court later today.
Islam is incompatible with a free republic. And it’s incompatible with service in the armed forces of that republic. Period.
They should simply let him loose on the Ranger school grounds around 5am some weekday morning. Somewhere out in the woods. Give him a knife to defend himself. Then let “nature” take its course.
That sounds like an excellent idea, GWB.
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