First successful terrorist attack in U.S. since 911

[Spartan Rex]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark — A man with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

A police report based on an interview with the suspect says Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, told police he observed two soldiers in uniform, drove up to the recruiting center in Little Rock and started shooting.

"He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them," Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press. "That's what he said."

Muhammad had converted to Islam at some point in his life and interviews with police show he "probably had political and religious motives for the attack," Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.


I wonder if Obama will publicly denounce this act as quickly as he did Dr.Tillers death or at all.
I also wonder if the rest of the Muslim world will be broad brushed as terrorists and fanatics by the same people who just a day ago called Pro Lifers terrorists and fanatics.

 

[King Darkness]

I wonder if Obama will publicly denounce this act as quickly as he did Dr.Tillers death or at all.
I also wonder if the rest of the Muslim world will be broad brushed as terrorists and fanatics by the same people who just a day ago called Pro Lifers terrorists and fanatics.

I wonder what your agenda is in posting this thread?

 

[Batty]

Seriously? Do we need another locked thread?

 

[carbo-fation]

Sad story but could you post an actual link to the story?

 

[ripper_joe77]

Very sad story, but I would like an actual link also.

 

[Shai]

i wouldnt call this a terrorist attack.just a nutjob deranged person.


And yeah the pro-life people are real terrorists .

 

[BadMoon]

And just so people are clear this guy was African American. Not a middle eastern man. So the terrorist stereotype doesn't fit.

 

[Shropt]

Please tell me Spartan will get a reprimand for this. Posting an article attacking a group on this board, the president, and generally a racist article on this board is just wrong.

This is not a political board. Take this elsewhere.

 

[BadMoon]

Please tell me Spartan will get a reprimand for this. Posting an article attacking a group on this board, the president, and generally a racist article on this board is just wrong.

This is not a political board. Take this elsewhere.

While I see the point behind it to be provolking I dont see it as attacking or racist. I only posted the fact that he was african american so people didn't start the whole middle eastern people thing again.

Again, I think the posting of the article is fine. I think it's the comments afterwards were meant to be the provolking part.

 

[DinoLast]

i wouldnt call this a terrorist attack.just a nutjob deranged person.


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What he said

 

[occulum]

since we all know how political threads end up in arguments, pissy people and locked threads, Id call the posting of this thread a terrorist attack on this board ....

 

[BadMoon]

Here is a link to the article and a picture of the guy in case people are interested. https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/arkansas.recruiter.shooting/index.html

(CNN) -- An Arkansas man was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting at a Little Rock military recruiting center that killed one soldier and wounded another, authorities said.


Police identified the suspect as Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe.

1 of 2 Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad -- a 24-year-old Little Rock resident formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe -- faces a first-degree murder charge and 15 counts of engaging in a terrorist act, Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas said. The terrorist counts stem from the shots fired at an occupied building.

While authorities continued to investigate a motive, Thomas said Muhammad is a Muslim convert and, based on preliminary interviews with him, investigators believe there were "political and religious motives" in the shooting.

Military officials initially believed the shooting was a random act, but Thomas said police believe the shooter acted alone "with the specific purpose of targeting military personnel."

The soldier who was killed was identified as Pvt. William Long, 24, of Conway, and the wounded soldier is Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, Thomas said.

Ezeagwula is in stable condition and expected to recover, the police chief said.

"I'm relieved there's a suspect in custody," said Capt. Matthew Feehan, commander of the center.

Feehan said seven other recruiters were in the building, but nobody else was injured.

Thomas said police recovered three guns from Muhammad's black Ford SUV: an SKS semi-automatic rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and a pistol.

The victims were just out of basic training and had not been deployed, said Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis, commander of the Oklahoma recruiting battalion that oversees the Little Rock recruiting center.

Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tennesee , who was listed on the police report as Muhammad's father, declined to comment, referring questions to Little Rock Police.


The soldiers were part of a recruiting program called "hometown recruiting assistance," Artis said. Under the program, recruiters have the soldiers tell their stories to potential recruits. It's a volunteer position taken while soldiers are visiting or based back in their home region, Artis said.

The FBI has opened an investigation into the incident, said Steven Frazier, spokesman for the agency's Little Rock office. "Based on what we find, we will determine whether there is any federal jurisdiction to prosecute," he said.

 

[hoodonit00]

Please tell me Spartan will get a reprimand for this. Posting an article attacking a group on this board, the president, and generally a racist article on this board is just wrong.

This is not a political board. Take this elsewhere.

Oh please. It may be locked but he sure as heck didn't write anything worthy of being reprimanded for.

 

[bumblebee]

In before the lock of another dumb thread.

 

[DarthNeil]

Seriously? Do we need another locked thread?

Obviously we do.