This is the Muslim U.S. Army recruit whom the FBI is now claiming is not a threat, and for which there never was a manhunt. Muhammad Abdullah Hassan himself wrote: “I wanna be a martyr (shaheed)!!! YA, brothers and sisters. Make a dua for me asking Allah to make me a martyr, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!” He praised bin Laden and announced his intention to wage jihad in the immediate future. But he’s not a threat. Oh, no. “Right-wing extremists,” they’re the threat.
“GI Jihadi: Ex-Army recruit’s online terror threats exposed,” by Jana Winter for Fox News, April 1 (thanks to all who sent this in):
EXCLUSIVE: – A self-professed jihadist who threatened online to commit a “Fort Hood-inspired” act of terror was weeks away from reporting for basic training when the military learned of his radicalism – which had apparently been on display for months in online posts where he praised Usama bin Laden and pledged to die for radical Islam.
The man identified in an FBI-sourced alert as “Booker, also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan” appears to be the same person who wrote of his jihadist aspirations, cheered on the murder of American troops in Iraq and praised the Al Qaeda terror boss in posts stretching back months, FoxNews.com has learned.
“Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush! I am so nervous,” read a March 19 post on the Facebook page authorities believe belonged to the subject of the alert. “NOT because I’m scared to die but I am EAGER to meet my lord.”
John Thomas Booker, 19, of Topeka, Kan. enlisted in the Army in February and was due to report for basic training on April 7. But the FBI interviewed him in March and alerted the Army, which formally discharged him last week. He is now in an undisclosed mental health facility, sources told FoxNews.com.
“The Army was notified on 21 March by federal law enforcement of Mr. Booker’s jihad sympathies and worked jointly to prevent a potential threat,” Army spokesman George Wright told Fox News. “Mr. John Booker enlisted on Feb. 7, but never attended basic training. He was released from the delayed entry program on March 24. Mr. Booker never expressed any anti-American sentiment during the recruiting process.”
But even after his discharge, on March 28, an alert based on information provided by the FBI and sent to law enforcement and military agencies warned of “Planned Ft. Hood-inspired Jihad against US Soldiers by Army Recruit.”
“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,” the alert read. “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.”
The alert, which was sourced to “an FBI agent,” stated it was distributed to “inform and protect officers who may encounter this individual or others exhibiting the same aspirations.”
Four days later, on Tuesday, the FBI downplayed the “routine” alert, saying it was not actively searching for Booker. The agency said it did not believe he posed an “imminent threat,” despite the original alert’s invocation of the Fort Hood shooting, where an Army psychologist killed 13 and wounded more than 30 on a Texas military base in 2009.
“We have interviewed this individual,” an FBI spokesman said. “There is not a manhunt and there never was one. There is no imminent threat to public safety, nor should the public be concerned that this threat exists from an individual at large.”
But weeks earlier, even as Booker was being recruited by the Army and preparing to report, a check of his activity on various social media sites might have revealed he was not fit to serve. As far back as five months before enlisting, he was actively posting in support of the murder of U.S. troops overseas.
The Facebook profile believed to have been created by Booker was taken down on Monday night, though FoxNews.com obtained numerous screen shots of his posts and photos. The page, as well as numerous YouTube rants, painted a picture of a troubled radical with bad intentions long before he was recruited by the Army, or interviewed by the FBI’s Kansas City office.
“I wanna be a martyr (shaheed)!!! YA, brothers and sisters,” he said on a YouTube video some seven months ago. “Make a dua for me asking Allah to make me a martyr, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! My name is above in blue.”
Around the same time, he commented on a video called “American soldiers A day in iraq Part 1,” saying, “I’m am Muslim. Muslims had no business in Iraq.” The video shows, graphically, American troops under fire in Iraq in 2008.
Booker, who attended Topeka West High School, where he was a member of the Junior ROTC program before graduating in 2012, at some point began calling himself Muhammad Abdullah Hassan. According to his now-defunct Facebook profile, Hassan “Studied Protection, Security and Investigation at Flint Hills Job Corps” and lives in Topeka.
On March 9, a month after he enlisted at the Kansas City recruiting station, Booker posted a series of photos of Usama bin Laden holding various weapons. “Allahu Akbar J Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his army..” reads a post by the photo.
On March 15, a post on the Facebook page expressed Booker’s desire to die for his beliefs.
“Oh those of the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad(S)j. I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye!” it read. “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 soreJ I cannot wait to go to the Prophet Muhammad’s(S) door and prank Isa bin Maryan 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.”
duh_swami says
It would seem to me, that if a jihadi, really wanted to martyr themselves, they would not protect themselves in battle but deliberately expose themselves to hostile fire. Isn’t there a hadith, where during a battle that a warrior was taking a rest, and eating dates, asked Mahound what was the highest deed, he said the first was to worship Allah or something like that, and the second highest was to martyr themselves for Allah. The warrior threw down the dates and went back in battle with no armor and fought until killed. ‘ A little work, but a great reward’…
Angemon says
Is it this one?
Sahih Muslim, 20:4678: – It has been reported on the authority of Jabir that a man said: Messenger of Allah, where shall I be if I am killed? He replied: In Paradise. The man threw away the dates he had in his hand and fought until he was killed (he did not wait until he could finish the dates).
Angemon says
“Around the same time, he commented on a video called “American soldiers A day in iraq Part 1,” saying, “I’m am Muslim. Muslims had no business in Iraq.””
He should be sent back in time to 7th century Mesopotamia to say that to the Umayyad caliphate.
Bezelel says
It seems that if we are to consider jihadi’s insane now, there will be a need for much larger facilities. This could set a precedent.Gaza could be deemed an asylum and quarantined!!!
Joe P. says
When someone is taken to a psychiatric hospital, he typically will be given medication. Some meds have a way of getting people to talk. I imagine the FBI will probably be there with lots of questions.
Bezelel says
As I listen to the news this evening, waterboarding comes to mind but that seems a little too mild.
Luther Henry says
I think I am beginning to understand now. The FBI is simply protecting his and other Jihadis religious freedom to engage in mayhem and become a “shaheed”. Is this a great country or what?
Jay Boo says
Islam tops off its followers with GUILT and SHAME
and then leaves them gasping for yet another cheap vanity FIX
In a final face-saving gesture they grasp at suicide by martyrdom.
Before they die they pray that their hateful snooping Muslim community will no longer be able to gossip about their shortcomings to please angry Allah.
wes says
“We have interviewed this individual,” an FBI spokesman said. “There is not a manhunt and there never was one. There is no imminent threat to public safety, nor should the public be concerned that this threat exists from an individual at large.”
Notice which verb tenses are being used.
They interviewed him the same day they found out about the threat, so there was no manhunt. He is currently locked up in a mental health facility, therefore there is no “imminent threat” “from an individual at large.” Notice they don’t say there was never a threat, or never could be a threat if he is released.
Champ ✿ says
What an evil islamic perp! …yeah I hope he gets 72 nasty demons dressed in drag since that’s what he deserves; and may allah be merciful and give him more just for good measure.
citycat says
“I am EAGER to meet my lord”-is there more to this than brainwashing?
More frightened of peers than of death?
Lord Allah exists not on the other side, but in the East, on this side, as a low level red energy vampiric entity.
That won’t be the picture in the mind of the suicide victim martyr Jihad Muslim.
God knows where Allah came from, maybe created unwittingly by people focus, or older than Islam.
Suicide don’t get points on the other side,
“you’ve had a body and destroyed it, it’s time to go, this way, come on”
type of thing
Elise says
Pray that the true God, Jesus Christ enters his heart and he no longer believes in Jihad. I used to get so angry when I read these reports from Jihad Watch, now I pray that these evil Islamic people find the truth, the way and the light. The ignorance of the Muslims with regards to critical thinking, biology and other sciences, life skills, parenting skills and history will be their downfall.
When information about an evil corrupt Islamic regime like Iran comes out in a book titled, Captive in Iran, the world knows that their downfall is inevitable. It’s too bad that the current American Administration is fearful of the truth, unable to tell the truth and allows a Christian Pastor to languish in an Iranian prison. The current Administration spends more time defending the Ft Hood murderer as work place violence than the Americans imprisoned or kidnapped abroad.
Harold says
Active Shooter on Fort Hood at this time. Fort Hood is on lock down. Unsure if it is related.
Bezelel says
The news is already suggesting the workplace violence theory.
Ozzypozzy says
A human man wrote all the crap in the bible/koran. There is no oogyboogy man sitting up in the clouds waiting for you to go kill non religious persons! I just wish humans would take more notice of the unrelenting damage they do to our earth and the exploiting of others and animals than constantly thinking of ways of murdering. Heaven, hell and paradise are here right now on this earth. It’s how you live your life. Only saying…
voegelinian says
Do you all believe this latest Fort Hood shooter is a non-Muslim as the MSM apparently is trying to tell us?
Neither do I.
Bezelel says
What I’m hearing this morning is Psch-Meds. The other common denominator. A non combatant claiming ptsd, possibly wanting free medical and service connected disability pension after discharge.When the shrinks start experimenting with a patients meds, especially psych-meds, all bets are off. Check the stats on vets suicide rates against the numbers where the medication is involved.
kikorikid says
You got it in one!
Psych meds are always suspect.
A few induce aggression and/or
suicidal behavior. 100% of Psychiatric
Patients are on Psychotropic Medication.
That is suspect? Yeah, Mommas little helpers.
Cindy says
They need to arm our men so they a fighting chance. These folks are not going to stop attacking us, how can we stand up to 42 virgins or whatever the amount. I mean they are not getting that but they don’t know that till they get there. Then they find out that it was a mistake. Too late then right?? But you can’t tell them, they have bought the lie. But we don’t have to be unprepared.
Covadonga says
‘Dua’ means a prayer, btw.