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May 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Prosecutors said Abdo had already started making a bomb when he was detained
at a Killeen motel last year after going absent without leave from Fort
Campbell, Kentucky. Authorities also found numerous bomb-making components,
a loaded gun, 143 rounds of ammunition, a stun gun and other items in his
backpack and motel room.
In a recorded police interview, Abdo said he was planning to pull off an
attack in the Fort Hood area “because I don’t appreciate what my unit did in
Afghanistan.”
He told authorities he planned to put the bomb in a busy restaurant filled
with soldiers, wait outside and shoot anyone who survived – and become a
martyr after police killed him.
Abdo told an investigator that he didn’t plan an attack inside Fort Hood
because he didn’t believe he would be able to get through security at the
gates.
During the four-day trial, a recorded jail conversation was played for jurors
in which Abdo told his mother his religion inspired his actions and he was
seeking justice for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Their suffering is my suffering,” he said.
Abdo’s lead attorney, Zach Boyd, told jurors during closing arguments that
Abdo should be acquitted because his plan never progressed beyond
preparation.
Killeen police began investigating Abdo on July 26 after a gun store employee
reported a young man bought nearly 3kg of smokeless gunpowder, shotgun
ammunition and a magazine for a semiautomatic pistol, while behaving in an
odd manner and seeming to know little about his purchases.
Officers also learned that Abdo bought a US Army uniform and a “Smith” name
patch from another store, and jurors saw surveillance footage showing him
leaving the store wearing the uniform he just bought.
He was detained on July 27, 2011, after police tracked him to the motel in
Killeen, about 150 miles southwest of Dallas.
“A disaster was averted because somebody picked up the phone and made a call,”
prosecutor Mark Frazier told the Associated Press after the trial, when the
judge’s gag order was lifted.
“The people who work in businesses like this are vigilant … and risked being
embarrassed if their suspicions turned out to be nothing, but that’s what we
want people to do.”
Abdo went AWOL from the Kentucky base over the Fourth of July weekend, about
two months after he was charged with possessing child pornography, which put
his conscientious objector status on hold.
Abdo then went to Nashville, bought a gun from an online seller and kept
traveling until he ended up in his Dallas-area hometown. He paid cash for
food, motel rooms and bus and cab fare and used his roommate’s ID card. When
his Dallas friends didn’t help him, he wanted to go to South Texas but chose
Killeen because he remembered news reports of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
rampage in which a Muslim soldier is charged, according to testimony.
Major Nidal Hasan faces the death penalty in the Fort Hood shootings if
convicted at his trial, which starts in August.
Abdo became a Muslim when he was 17. He enlisted in the military in 2009,
thinking that the service wouldn’t conflict with his religious beliefs. But
according to his essay that was part of his conscientious objector status
application, Abdo reconsidered as he explored Islam further.
In that essay, which he sent to the AP in 2010, Abdo said acts like the Fort
Hood shootings “run counter to what I believe in as a Muslim.”
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