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Kansas: Muslim vowed to “bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep”

Feb 8, 2016 8:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Mohammed Abdullah Hassan is a convert to Islam who somehow gained an understanding of Islam completely different from what Barack Obama and John Kerry and David Cameron tell us Islam is all about. Authorities remain uninterested in why, even though Obama and Kerry refuse to “validate” the jihadis by calling them Islamic, so many Muslims get the idea that they are anyway.

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“Ex-Army recruit pleads guilty to trying to bomb Fort Riley in Kansas,” by Ray Sanchez, CNN, February 4, 2016:

(CNN)A former U.S. Army enlistee who vowed to “bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep” pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to detonate a car bomb at Fort Riley military base in Kansas, authorities said.

John T. Booker Jr., 21, an American citizen also known as Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia to one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of attempted destruction of government property by fire or explosion, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department. He’s to receive a 30-year federal prison sentence.

“John Booker admitted that he intended to kill U.S. military personnel on American soil in the name of ISIL,” John Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement, referring to the terror organization also known as ISIS.

ISIS, ISIL or the Islamic State?

“Thankfully, law enforcement was able to safely identify and disrupt this threat to the brave men and women who risk their lives to defend our country.”

Booker admitted in court that his plot involved the construction of a bomb containing 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, according to federal prosecutors. He intended to trigger the bomb himself and filmed a video that was to be shown to Americans after his death in the suicide bombing.

“You sit in your homes and think this war is just over in Iraq,” Booker said in the video, according to prosecutors. “Today we will bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep.”

His attorney, Kirk Redmond, did not return a call seeking comment.

Bomb was a dud from the start

Booker did not know the bomb he constructed was made with inert materials or that two men working with him were FBI informants, prosecutors said.

The investigation of Booker was launched in March 2014 after he posted on Facebook of his intentions to engage in violent jihad, prosecutors said.

Booker enlisted in the Army in 2014 and was scheduled to begin basic training in April of that year, Army spokesman Wayne Hall said at the time of Booker’s arrest.

The criminal complaint said the FBI questioned him in March 2014 about comments posted on Facebook, such as, “Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush. I am so nervous. NOT because I’m scare to die but I am eager to meet my lord.”

In a video, Booker pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

Booker told investigators that he enlisted to commit an insider attack against American soldiers like the one Maj. Nidal Hassan carried out at Fort Hood, Texas, according to prosecutors. Hassan opened fire in a building in November 2009, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30.

His enlistment was terminated March 24, 2014, at the request of Army Criminal Investigation Command, Hall said.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: John T. Booker Jr., Mohammed Abdullah Hassan


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  1. Jay Boo says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    “Becoming a Muslim is the best decision you could ever make”,
    —- Said the imam

    This carpet kisser to receive a 30-year federal prison sentence.
    All for the pleasure of showing-off how to properly kiss Muhammad’s vile ass.

  2. Champ says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Team obama are bold-faced liars! …of course jihadists are “islamic”. So SICK of their lies.

    • Shane says

      Feb 9, 2016 at 4:42 pm

      How can we defeat the enemy when 1/3 of our population is in denial about the connection between Islam and jihad terrorism? The problem is even worse because our young people are even more clueless about the evils of Islam than our older people are.

      • Suzan says

        Feb 9, 2016 at 4:54 pm

        Pray

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Mohammed Abdullah Hassan and other converts to Islam read Islam’s foundational source texts (Sira, hadiths and Koran) and decide that jihad is the HUMP OF THE CAMEL (highest deed) in Islam.

    However, Western elites like Obama and Kerry DO NOT READ ANY SOURCE TEXTS of Islam and become EXPERTS ON ISLAM spontaneously without effort, reading, personal study or attending Islamic jihad study groups.

    How can Obama and Kerry SPONTANEOUSLY acquire knowledge about Islam without any effort? Are they using ESP? Or perhaps they are BULL****ING.

  4. home says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    Why do they all plead straight guilty?

    • Kathy Brown says

      Feb 8, 2016 at 9:13 pm

      Because their taqqiya will be blown. Evidence will come in showing the [invincible] truth of the govt’s position.

  5. Faustina says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    Putting him in jail doesn’t stop three danger he poses. He’ll recruit in prison.

  6. James says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    Is there something in the core text that tells them that they have to plead guilty? I have theories’….

  7. Adrian says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    Does anyone have a problem naming the “Church” of Scientology a cult?

    this kid was brainwashed more than any scientologist..

    so why the kid-gloves for Islam?

  8. Wellington says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    He looks ridiculous———-and this is the least of his faults. And in Kansas no less.

    Ah, the spiritual cancer which is Islam knows no bounds. I’d like to think Dorothy’s Kansas would have been off limits to the monstrosity which is Mo’s clearly made-up and self-serving creed, but alas it is not. Sadly, no place in the West is anymore. And may I put a plug in for the Wicked Witch of the West, who at least didn’t deny her malevolence, unlike Islam’s deluded followers who actually think of themselves as, a la Martha Stewart, “a good thing.”

    No they aren’t. In Kansas or anywhere else for that matter, including Arabia.

    • Karen says

      Feb 9, 2016 at 10:38 am

      Yes, my guess is that he feels quite special with the headgear, perhaps like Saudi royalty, when in fact he looks like a moronic wannabe.

  9. Dan Jones says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    These followers of the pedophile want any non-mo-ham-is-mad follower dead

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  10. A Fool says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 1:10 am

    Pray for that lost soul! God helps to bring him around! Hell is for ever! The difference between a saint and a sinner who is to be damend to hell is but by one Move! That is to make a good souls searching Confession! “Repent and be saved!

  11. duh_swami says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 8:13 am

    He must have been reading the ‘perverted version’ of Islam that Rasool Obama talks so much about…The PV should be banned as a danger to man and state…
    If you find a copy, do your duty and burn it…

    • Pumbar says

      Feb 9, 2016 at 11:03 pm

      I’ve been searching for a copy of the perverted version for a long time but all I ever find is the same version everyone else has.
      I thought I’d got lucky when I found, “koran out of context” on Ebay but it just turned out to be a seventies, Wahabbi, experimental industrial synth duo from Yemen.
      I shall keep searching.
      I’m sure Dave “dab hand at da hadith” CaMoron knows but he won’t reply to my correspondence.

  12. Karen says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 10:35 am

    “Today we will bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep.” No, not today, scumbag. And no, you won’t meet Allah today; first you’ll go to prison for a long, long time.

    But, sarcasm aside, how many insiders are still waiting to pull the trigger? Very impressive that the Army was able to put the puzzle pieces together and prevent this. What makes us think that we can close our eyes to the non-existent Syrian refugee vetting process, and be just as “lucky”?

  13. Angemon says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    “You sit in your homes and think this war is just over in Iraq,” Booker said in the video, according to prosecutors. “Today we will bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep.”

    With Kansas nonrestrictive gun laws? Good luck with that – you’re going to need it

  14. Satch1 says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 2:51 pm

    Figure the Cost of three meals a day and clothing, bedding and entertainment For Thirty years! Is This Person?? worth that much cost?

    • M says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 8:48 am

      Is saving lives worth that much??? Bc with someone like him behind bars he’s not free to carry out his deadly agenda.

  15. Bruce Hopkins says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    It’s a shame we’ve wussed-out on the death penalty! So much could be stopped if it was applied again, but THIS TIME applied swiftly after being imposed. “Because sentence for a crime is not swiftly carried out, the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” Ecclesiastes 8:11

    • Suzan says

      Feb 9, 2016 at 7:51 pm

      This leaves no room for repentance though.

    • DariusMcSean says

      Feb 22, 2016 at 7:04 pm

      Is there some part of Thou shalt not kill you don’t understand?

  16. Pumbar says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    Why did the muslim cross the wires?
    To get to the other side.

  17. David says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 6:21 am

    I am so sick of the “Political Elites “!
    The constant lying about how wonderful is islam! The utter failure to actually see the problem for what it is. And the total unwillingness to do what needs to be done to keep America safe from a continuous assault from these fourth world SAVAGES!
    Thank GOD for the second amendment !
    Our founding fathers saw the need for each citizens to have a right of defending him/herself. Especially now, when our “Leaders” , are refusing to defend the nation! And, committing TREASON against this nation by bringing this enemy into our homeland by the THOUSANDS!

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