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FBI, US military hunting for Muslim recruit planning “Fort Hood-style jihad”

Mar 31, 2014 5:12 pm By Robert Spencer

ss-091105-FtHood-09.ss_full“The alert, whose legitimacy was confirmed by military and law enforcement officials, stated that a man identified as Booker had told friends of his ‘intention to commit jihad.’ Booker, who is also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, was recruited by the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for basic training on April 7. But he was discharged last week, apparently after law enforcement authorities learned of his alleged plan.” It is almost certain that no one looked askance at this conversion to Islam when he was recruited. To have done so would have been “Islamophobic.” To have questioned him or looked in any way into his views on jihad and on serving in an Infidel military force would have been “Islamophobic.” Meanwhile, how did law enforcement officials learn of his plan? Did he show up at some Islamic site (online or real) that they had under surveillance? Remember how energetically Hamas-linked CAIR and Leftist groups are trying to end that surveillance.

“FBI, US military in hunt for one-time recruit planning ‘Fort Hood-style jihad,'” by Jana Winter for Fox News, March 31:

EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is searching for a recent Army recruit believed to be planning a “Fort Hood-inspired jihad against U.S. soldiers,” FoxNews.com has learned.

The alert, whose legitimacy was confirmed by military and law enforcement officials, stated that a man identified as Booker had told friends of his “intention to commit jihad.” Booker, who is also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, was recruited by the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for basic training on April 7. But he was discharged last week, apparently after law enforcement authorities learned of his alleged plan.

Both the FBI and the 902d Military Intelligence Group at Fort Leavenworth are involved in the hunt.

The alert, a copy of which was obtained by FoxNews.com, was sent out by the FBI’s Kansas City Division on Friday and distributed through the U.S. Marine Corps. The portion obtained by FoxNews.com did not include Hassan’s photo or age. It was also sent to the Kansas City Police Department, which could indicate authorities believe he may have remained in the area where he was recruited.

The alert is titled, “Planned Fort Hood-inspired Jihad against US Soldiers by Army Recruit” and was issued “to inform and protect officers who may encounter this individual or others exhibiting the same aspirations.” The source of the information contained in the alert was listed as “An FBI agent.”

According to the alert:

“On 20 March 2014, the Kansas City Division FBI became aware of an individual named BOOKER aka Muhammad Abdullah Hassan who had publicly stated his intention to commit jihad, bidding farewell to his friends and making comments indicating his jihad was imminent. BOOKER had been recruited by the US Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for Basic Training on 7 April 2014. Kansas City Division Agents interviewed BOOKER on 20 March 2014.”

Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Ty Balzer confirmed the alert’s legitimacy, but referred questions to the FBI. A spokeswoman with the Kansas City Division of the FBI — the same division responsible for sending out the alert and who, according to the alert, spoke with Booker on March 20 — said she did “not have any information to provide in regards to your inquiry.”

Law enforcement sources familiar with the alert said it appeared to suggest that there may be others in addition to Booker who also might have expressed similar intentions to commit jihad against U.S. military installations.

A military source said it appeared the bulletin was provided by the FBI, then distributed by the Marine Corps under the normal protocol of sharing any information relating to a potential threat to U.S. military installations or personnel.

A spokesman for the Kansas City recruiting station where Booker enlisted referred FoxNews.com’s questions to 902d Military Intelligence Group, which did not immediately return requests for comment.

The Fort Hood shooting, referenced in the alert, took place on Nov. 5, 2009. U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a psychiatrist who had become a radical Muslim while serving in the military, killed 13 people and injured dozens more inside the Texas Army base. Hasan, who represented himself at a military trial after clashing with his appointed attorneys, was sentenced to death in August.

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  1. Diane Harvey says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 5:34 pm

    “Paging General Casey. Your Diversity party is waiting for you in the lobby.”

    Paging Bishop McManus. Your Interfaith Dialogue is waiting for you at the church’s Fellowship Hall where a lesson on bomb-making is underway.”

    “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,” Casey said.

    “That concern was that Mr. Spencer”s talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims and possibly generate suspicion and even fear of people who practice piously the religion of Islam.”

  2. anonamustafa says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    “Planned Fort Hood-inspired Jihad against US Soldiers by Army Recruit”

    Uh…no…
    Islam inspired is more like it.

    Crazy,huh?

  3. Chabuco says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    More youth produced workplace violence on the way? Oh my!

  4. voegelinian says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    “The Fort Hood shooting, referenced in the alert, took place on Nov. 5, 2009. U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a psychiatrist who had become a radical Muslim while serving in the military, killed 13 people and injured dozens more inside the Texas Army base.”

    Over 30 were injured, to be more precise. That means we must reasonably describe the Fort Hood massacre as having constituted some 45 deaths, — since every wounded victim was meant to be killed by Hasan and, but for those who stopped Hasan, would likely have been killed by Hasan.

    Counting the wounded as in the same category as those killed is one way to be more realistic about the danger we face from Mohammedan terrorists. Another way is to acount every foiled or failed attempt at a terror attack s an actual successful attack.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Apr 1, 2014 at 9:02 pm

      I understand that one of the women that was murdered by the Islamist was carrying an unborn child. Is that so? That would make it 46 deaths. “Dear God, please help the authorities with needed power and knowledge and common sense so they would be able to stop these murderers from committing such great evil and sorrow and quickly execute the evil people.

  5. Jerry says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    Easy to find the inspiration thereto at the White House, where a Muslim born and Educated is masquarading as a “Christian”, albeit a fake one.

    When will they ever learn?

  6. John P McGeehan says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    Find him, try him and execute him…

  7. Twostellas says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 8:14 pm

    They need to take down any Mosques and recruiters for jihad, now!!! No more bullshit of “we don’t know him, not really anyway, he came her a couple times.”. Yes, you do know him! You converted him! Time to account.

  8. Bezelel says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    Dead or alive

  9. Dave Levine says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    If the FBI is looking for this scumbag, why haven’t they released his photo so the public can assist in capturing him before he does some serious damage?

    • karl anglin says

      Mar 31, 2014 at 10:03 pm

      political correctness.

    • Bezelel says

      Apr 1, 2014 at 7:16 pm

      I still haven’t seen one.

  10. Veracious_one says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    roh roh…appears to be another convert

  11. DosCuervos says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    Hassan’s Facebook page is full of postings about jihad, including this one on March 19:

    “Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush!! I am so nervous. NOT because I’m scared to die but I am EAGER to meet my lord.”

    He said in an earlier post on March 15:

    “Oh those of the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad(S). I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye! I am going to wage jihad and hopes that i die. I want to be with my lord so bad that I cry but I will miss you guys I am not going to lie. I wish I could give you guys more but I am just a guy who is so very poor. I am telling you I am so broke that my pockets are sore:) I cannot wait to go the Prophet Muhammad’s(S) door and prank Isa bin Maryam and party so hard that it will rock Jannah to its core. Only Allah knows what the future has in store so that should make you fear Allah much much more.”

    He also shared photos of Osama bin Laden.

    Hassan graduated from Topeka West High School and went through the Flint Hills Job Corps center.

  12. Saleem Smith says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    US Soldier Becomes Jihadi Terrorist –

    We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that this particular Islam inspired Muslim terrorist is simply following the instructions he found in the Quran and Muhammad’s Sunnah (Sunnah is the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad).

    The slaves of Mohammedanism are duty bound to spread Islam.

    http://www.faithfreedom.org/the-challenge-2/

  13. Saleem Smith says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 11:26 pm

    Muhammad the mad prophet of Islam must obeyed at all costs.

    Without such a thing you must become an ex-Muslim apostate confined to death.

  14. voegelinian says

    Mar 31, 2014 at 11:30 pm

    Hassan’s Facebook page is full of postings about jihad, including this one on … March 15:

    “… I am going to wage jihad and hopes that i die… I cannot wait to go the Prophet Muhammad’s(S) door and prank Isa bin Maryam…”

    Why would he want to prank a Prophet of Islam…?

    “… and party so hard that it will rock Jannah to its core.

    Rape and Ripple. What more could a homeboy axe for?

  15. DosCuervos says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:23 am

    His Facebook page has been taken down since I saw it a few hours ago.
    http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/03/booker-us-army-terrorist-suspect-muhammad-abdullah-hassan/ has several screencaps and saved posts.

  16. alan says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:26 am

    Winston Churchill who fought Hitler and warned about communism also called Islam in a man like rabies in a dog… Why did you stupid American voters put an Islamo-fascist leftist in the white house? In so doing you placed the whole world on the slippery slope towards Islamic violence and intolerance. Since you idiots voted Hussein Obama in the Muslims have crept out everywhere with their ugly beards and headbags…

    • Salah says

      Apr 1, 2014 at 12:59 am

      “Why did you stupid American voters put an Islamo-fascist leftist in the white house?”

      Because we have turned our backs on our God. Evil always rushes in to fill the void created by the absence of good.
      We get what we deserve!

    • V says

      Apr 1, 2014 at 1:15 am

      Everyone I know, my whole family voted Republican, despite the fact that our most recent top opposing presidential candidate, Romney, is a Mormon, however he’s viewed as the lesser of evils… I think that was hard for some people to pick when they didn’t like either one. More independents and libertarians coming soon! Not all idiots, these parties don’t truly represent most of the people anymore. We don’t want a Mormon and we don’t want a closet Islamist either. Secular govt is what we want. Freedom

      • Terry says

        Apr 1, 2014 at 4:31 am

        I agree! As for me, my vote will never again go to either a Democrat nor a Republican; I would rather vote for Mickey Mouse- at least that way I would know who ate the cheese!

    • Charli Main says

      Apr 1, 2014 at 6:26 am

      I take your point Alan, but before we piss on the Yanks, lets remember that the British voter put David ” its nothing to do with Islam ” Cameron in power.
      Also lets not forget David ” I intend to make London the Sharia compliant, global capital of Islamic finance” Cameron and his” special adviser, Baroness Warsi”.!!!!
      We need to move out of the glass house before we through stones at others.

  17. The Islamist says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 5:16 am

    More Jihadis are inspired by the Zionist wars that Quranic Verses. Stop Zion- wars and see. Continue occupying muslim lands and see how muslims react. Ask Kenya and Uganda if they have experienced any islamic attacks before invading Somalia. There was no Quran at that time? Jokers.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 7, 2014 at 8:00 am

      Stop with the whining and lying.

      “No” Muslim attacks upon Kenya and Uganda until they went into Somalia to try to burn out the nests of the Somali Muslim raiders who had been invading *their* territory?? Really?

      Nonsense and lies. Some of us have long memories.

      Don’t you think we don’t know about the Muslim slave raids that devastated east Africa for centuries? I’m sure that black africans in what is now Kenya and what is now Uganda were attacked and murdered and raped and robbed and enslaved (and, often, castrated) by Muslim Arab slave-raiders attacking both from the north and from the coast, looong before ever east africa was colonised by the British…and the slave trade **suppressed**.

      And don’t pretend we don’t know about Idi Amin and his favouring of the Muslims, which made life dreadful for non-Muslims in Uganda during his cruel and crazy dictatorship. Or the plot that was hatched, back in 2008, by Muslims in Uganda, to *murder the Queen of England* while she was visiting the country? That little plot was foiled, fortunately. That was in 2008 – *before* Kenya or Uganda intervened in Somalia. And don’t pretend we don’t know how members of the Muslim minorities *within* Uganda and Kenya are treating – that is, *mistreating* – threatening, attacking, sometimes *killing* – those among them who leave Islam. And attacking Christians because attacking Christians and other non-Muslims is what Muslims *do*…If Kenya and Uganda never went into Somalia, the Muslims would find some *other* excuse and go right on attacking Kenyan and Ugandan Christians and animists…because at bottom, Muslims are taught to hate and despise non-Muslims, and seek to terrorise them into converting or submitting as dhimmis and if they refuse conversion or dhimmi status, the Muslims are supposed to *kill* them. (Quran 9:29; and you damn well know that, you thug).

      Kenya and Uganda only went into Somalia in the first place because **Somali Muslims were conducting raids across the borders into their territory** (and doing wicked, vile, horrible things like kidnapping and taking back into Somalia and then holding to ransom western tourists who had been staying as guests *on Kenyan soil*). The East African non-Muslims had to go into Somalia to tackle the *source* of the raids; just as it was necessary for western countries to go into North Africa, in the 19th century, to put a stop to mohammedan piracy upon non-Muslim shipping in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

  18. Always On Watch says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 6:41 am

    My first thought upon reading this: Did Booker “lose” a uniform so as to use a uniform to gain easier access to military bases or other military installations?

  19. Robert Brooks says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 9:40 am

    So, what’s new? When will we officially admit that are at war with them? The muzzies have announced many, many times. They announce their intentions on a daily basis. We need to assume a war-time posture. We need to return to them, what they have been dishing out! That is the only way they know how to “communicate”. Hurt them, then they will stop, or reconsider their plan of attack(excuse the pun).

  20. DosCuervos says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 10:36 am

    Always, Booker did not go to Basic Training, so he was not issued uniforms, ID card, or anything else terribly useful.

    • Always On Watch says

      Apr 1, 2014 at 6:31 pm

      Let’s hope that he didn’t buy imitations online.

      Let’s also hope that guards at various military installations are more alert than the guard at Hampton Roads about a week ago — when Jeffrey Tyrone Savage boarded a naval destroyer and murdered a sailor.

  21. Beth Martin says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    No problem. Mr. Hasson may get a second opportunity to kill active duty army, navy, air force or marine troop after he is released from prison.

    TSA has authority to decide who gets a security clearance to drive civilian trucks onto US military bases. TSA apparently is unable to perform this responsibly.

    Last Monday, Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Mark A. Mayo, 24 was murdered aboard the USS Mahan in Norfolk, VA. . The murderer is Jeffrey Tyrone Savage, an ex-con. His prior conviction was for manslaughter. After release from prison Mr. Savage obtained a security clearance from the TSA allowing him to drive anywhere on the Naval base.

    Since this is being ignored in Virginia (where I live) except by Norfolk media, I can only assume the reporters for CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc find this un-newsworthy.

    • Will Doohan says

      Apr 2, 2014 at 2:36 am

      How the hell could someone who has a previous conviction of manslaughter get a security clearance?

  22. Dennis Trisker says

    Apr 3, 2014 at 4:01 am

    It may take many incidents like this for America to wake up. It is impossible to generalize but most Muslims only want to get by, get rich,etc. the American dream. They are not in favor of Islamic tactics. Most of my Muslim friends have become agnostics and atheists and want nothing to do with any religion. Their parents left their birth countries for a better life. However they don’t feel empowered to stand up against the Jihadists. Maybe we must get it across to them that in the US they need not be bullied. Maybe these incidents will also wake up the public in general!

  23. Zuzana Livingstone says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    About the 2014 Fort Hood shooting, was it Ivan Lopez or Booker? Two different names in two different sources. Which one is true?

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