The feds were hunting for Mohammed Abdullah Hassan last year after discovering his intention to wage a “Fort Hood-style jihad.” But they determined that he presented no imminent danger. So last Friday he tried to murder as many Americans as possible at Fort Riley. I guess by “no imminent danger” they mean “he won’t try to commit jihad mass murder for another year.”
“Terror charges filed against Topeka man accused of Fort Riley bomb plot for Islamic State,” Kansas City Star, April 10, 2015:
Federal authorities charged a 20-year-old Topeka man Friday with plotting to bomb Fort Riley in league with, he believed, the so-called Islamic State.
John Thomas Booker Jr., also known as Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, was named with in three counts that alleged he planned on Friday to use a “weapon of mass destruction” to damage property at the U.S. Army Base near Junction City in a suicide mission.
He was arrested without incident 9 a.m. Friday. Conviction on any count could mean a sentence of life in prison. The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom of Kansas.
“We face a continued threat from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of causes,” said Grissom said in a news release. “Anyone who seeks to harm this nation and its people will be brought to justice.”
More than a year ago, court records contend, Booker posted on Facebook that “I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye! I’m going to wage jihad and hopes that i die.” A few days later, according to the charges, he said “getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush!!”
That, the charges contend, prompted a tip to FBI agents who interviewed him.
Booker had enlisted in the U.S. Army with the intent to “commit an insider attack against American soldiers,” the court records allege he told FBI agents.
The court records say he talked of shooting other soldiers in basic training — although preferring “someone with power” rather than “privates” — or being deployed overseas and turning on Americans if he was told to kill a fellow Muslim.
But he apparently enlisted under a delayed entry program and never became a part of the Army.
Months later, in October 2014, the charges contend Booker came in contact with an FBI informant and said he wanted to be part of the Islamic State, sometimes referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Authorities on Friday contended that Booker had created at least two videos — one filmed in front of a collection of bomb materials — rented a 10-foot-by-20-foot storage locker in Topeka and went to several retailers buying bomb materials.
But they said there was never a breach in security at Fort Riley. And the assembled bomb material was inert, incapable of explosion.
“I want to assure the public there was never any breach of Fort Riley Military Base,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric Jackson. “Recently the Command Staff at Fort Riley has been working hand-in-hand with law enforcement to ensure the utmost security and protection for the men and women who serve our country, and the surrounding community that supports the base.”
Still, the court records contend Booker planned a specific route through the base and targeted particular buildings to be struck with a car bomb. He had identified a utility gate to the base chosen because Booker believed his entry would not easily be detected and he could find an area where the car bomb “would kill as many soldiers as possible,” the charges contend.
While he was making the final connections to arm the car bombs at that gate, the charges allege, he was arrested by the FBI.
The court document describes a man eager to go overseas to fight with the Islamic State and a willingness take his fight to “the White House right now.”
Booker told an informant that a “suicide bomb is his number one aspiration because he couldn’t be captured, all evidence would be destroyed, and he would be guaranteed to hit his target.”
The investigation was conducted by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, including members from the FBI’s Kansas City Division, the Topeka Police Department and the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Roughly a year ago in early April 2014, FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the bureau had questioned Booker in the wake of reports he harbored “jihad sympathies” and determined there was no public danger. She declined to release additional details.
“It is the belief that the public is in no imminent danger,” Patton said at the time….
pumbar says
Better get that copy of Mark Stein, “‘Murica alone”. Europe has gone, the UK is dead and finished, Canada and Australasia are inconsequential. Hell, yeah, ‘Murica!
Sarah says
This is how it goes. Bit by bit. Day be day. No one has to roll in with tanks and bombs. They chip away from the outside in, from the inside out, and all the while, the American public is woefully unaware or slowly adapt to these new realities of living with savages. Until the chipping away reaches a critical mass. And it’s too late to ever go back. We are in such deep trouble. Yet the media chirps away about mindless things as presidential race, which should hinge on a person’s ability to, first and foremost, keep America safe, seems to revolve around which gender a person is attracted to. What it will take for people to wake up, I do not know. Perhaps millions really are just goners at this point.
JeffS says
“We face a continued threat from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of causes,”
such as Islam, Islam, Islam and Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The Muslim man who was scheming to create a bomb, with deadly intentions, for the jihad.He may have in some strange and odd way, because he is so warped and deluded by his religion, had actually thought of such a murderous bombing attack as something, is his Islamic mindset , that is in essence a thing that is “good.” To view such evil as something that is good is absurd to say the least. This really exposes the mind warping and hideous effect that Islam may have on a person. Furthermore, The Bible explains about those who have of such a strange ,odd, warped and deluded way of thinking as the think of evil and good and good as evil. For the Bible in Isaiah 5;20. reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” [N.I.V.]
Dee says
They’ve been showing us the whole time how to deal with them.
Strike above their necks = target their leadership.
Jaladhi says
Get all Muslims out of all US defense forces – army, navy, air force, CIA, DHS, and all other government agencies !! They can never be trusted – never!1
lacet says
some people doant seem to live in reality at all,in the picture he is seen takeing a picture of himself,who would want any thing to do with another nut case.he has lots of time to do that now,
Alex says
“John Thomas Booker Jr”… Let me guess, another crazy convert?
sound awake says
its not going to be in the blue states where this starts to get out of control…it will be in the red states
duh_swami says
There is nothing here about a job, where he gets his money, or if he still lives at home with mom. If he goes to prison, life will be tough. At 20 he will be prized as a ‘boy, pure as a pearl’.
xxxChurch100 says
Is this a photograph of John Thomas Brooker Jr. aka Mohammed Abullah Hassan taking a ‘selfie ‘ with his underpants on his head ? It is working for me ………
Mohammed would be proud .
Laura says
This guy is not a muslim, he is a traitor, pure and simple, and as such should receive whatever punishment the American people think best fits his crimes.