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'Complot voor aanslag Fort Hood verijdeld'

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Drie Amerikaanse militairen zijn opgepakt omdat ze een aanslag op de legerbasis Fort Hood in Texas wilden plegen. Dat meldde nieuwszender Fox News donderdag.

Een militair werd opgepakt op de legerbasis zelf en twee militairen met explosieven werden elders gearresteerd, aldus de nieuwszender. Het leger wilde geen commentaar geven.

Fort Hood was vorig jaar het toneel van een dramatische schietpartij waarbij 13 mensen omkwamen. De dader was een militair.

'Complot voor aanslag Fort Hood verijdeld' (Foto: ANP)

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9 reacties

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 17:32 uur #1

Bushmaster

Microschoft

Waren vast blanke christenen.

Eigen brokjes eerst.

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 17:34 uur #2

KanzloozNL

PS3 Master

vast moslims

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 17:34 uur #3

Lasombre

:-')

vast een stel idioten met een eigen visie waar anderen het niet mee eens zijn

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 17:35 uur #4

Fat_Mike

waren vast 3 militairen die dachten dat ze een training aan het doen waren

classic NWO

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 17:36 uur #5

trabant

quote:
Dat meldde nieuwszender Faux News donderdag.

Zijn er ook echte bronnen?

Farts are jazz to assholes

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 18:04 uur #6

langsdekant

Ene Nasser Jason Abdo is opgepakt. Klinkt erg Amerikaans.

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 21:40 uur #8

dingoegret

quote:
Op donderdag 28 juli 2011 @ 17:36 schreef trabant het volgende:

[..]
Zijn er ook echte bronnen?

Fox lijkt me nu niet de zender die blij zou zijn om dit te kunnen berichten, maar goed voor jou dat je even je pun hebt kunnen gebruiken.

donderdag 28 juli 2011, 21:47 uur #9

maxwellj

Niet het nieuws bewerken eh ?!

Er is maar 1 persoon opgepakt en 2 zijn ondervraagd. "two other U.S. soldiers have been questioned as part of the investigation..

Hele verhaal hier :

quote:
[b]A U.S. military serviceman has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to attack Fort Hood nearly two years after a deadly shooting rampage at the base, Fox News has learned exclusively.

Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo, an AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was arrested by the Killeen Police Department near Fort Hood and remains in custody there.

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Fort Hood base aerial view

An aerial view of Fort Hood, the Texas base where former Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a deadly shooting rampage in November 2009.

Abdo, 21, was found with weapons, explosives and jihadist materials at the time of his arrest, a senior Army source confirms to Fox News. He was arrested at around 2 p.m. Wednesday after someone called authorities to report a suspicious individual.

Eric Vasys, a spokesman with the FBI's San Antonio Office, said authorities found firearms and bomb making components inside Abdo's motel room. Sources also say Abdo was attempting to make a purchase at Guns Galore in Killeen, the same ammunition store where Major Nidal Hasan purchased weapons that were allegedly used to gun down 13 people and wound 30 others at the base on Nov. 5, 2009.

Sources said Abdo had enough materials to make two bombs, including 18 pounds of sugar and six pounds of smokeless gunpowder -- a possible trigger for an explosive. A pressure cooker was also found.

"He was all ready to go," one law enforcement source said.

Another counterterrorism source said the bomb making materials and methodology came "straight out of Inspire magazine and an Al Qaeda explosives course manual."

Law enforcement officials suspect Abdo was planning an attack in or around Fort Hood, though they say the exact target is not clear.

Police in Killeen received information from the owners of Guns Galore about a suspicious male who entered the store and, after asking about smokeless gun powder, purchased as much as six pounds of the powder, three boxes of 12 gauge ammunition and a magazine for a Springfield 9mm. The man allegedly paid for the items in cash and then left in a cab.

Bob Jenkins, a Fort Campbell spokesman, told Fox News that Abdo was also being investigated for child pornography found on his government computer.

Abdo went AWOL on July 4. On the eve of his first deployment to Afghanistan -- after only one year in the Army -- Abdo applied for conscientious objector status. It was denied by his superiors at Fort Campbell but later overturned by the Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Army review board.

Another source told Fox News that two other U.S. soldiers have been questioned as part of the investigation..

It remains unclear if Abdo's alleged plot to attack in or around Fort Hood was merely aspirational in nature.

"We are aware at this time that Killeen Police Department arrested a soldier yesterday," a Fort Hood official said in a statement Thursday. "The incident leading to the arrest did not occur on Fort Hood and the soldier was not a Fort Hood based soldier. At this time, there has been no incident at Fort Hood. We continue our diligence in keeping our force protection at appropriate levels."

The U.S. Department of Justice also released a statement confirming a "suspect is in custody" and saying, "We are not aware of any further immediate threat to public safety and are actively investigating the matter."

Vasys said Abdo will likely be charged later Thursday for being in possession of bomb making materials, though a Justice Department official would not confirm whether he faces federal charges.

On Nov. 5, 2009, Major Nidal Hasan, an American Army officer, carried out a shooting attack on the Fort Hood base in Texas that killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.

Hasan, a military psychiatrist, was arraigned on July 20 and is currently standing trial. His civilian lawyer withdrew from the case as it began.