Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley

Posted by timothy on Friday April 10, 2015 @04:11PM from the well-that's-not-nice dept.

The Associated Press (as carried by the Boston Herald) reports that a 20-year old Topeka man has been arrested as he attempted to arm what he believed to be a thousand-pound bomb outside Ft. Riley, Kansas. John T. Booker Jr. is alleged to have planned an attack in conspiracy with others who were actually FBI agents; Booker's postings to Facebook in March 2014 about his desire to die as a martyr brought him to the FBI's attention, and the FBI sting operation which ended in his arrest began after these posts. Booker had been recruited by the U.S. Army in February of last year, but his enlistment was cancelled shortly thereafter.

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Re: masdf by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-10 20:34 · Score: 0, Troll

Yes, it does.
Don't run. Don't die.
Debunking a myth by mean+pun · 2015-04-10 22:00 · Score: 0, Troll

[...] while Muslim faith prescribes terrorism.
That myth was debunked yet again this week by Juan Cole's Top Ten Ways Islamic Law forbids Terrorism. See: http://www.juancole.com/2015/0...