{"id":11271,"date":"2011-05-25T01:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11271"},"modified":"2011-05-25T00:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T05:48:05","slug":"jihad-motivated-military-shooter-still-awaiting-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/jihad-motivated-military-shooter-still-awaiting-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Jihad-Motivated Military Shooter Still Awaiting Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though the story has dropped off most mainstream radars, Abdulhakim Muhammad continues to navigate the judicial system to trial.\u00a0 Muhammad is accused in the 2009 killing of a US Army Soldier<\/a> and the wounding of one other in a shooting outside a military recruiter’s office in Arkansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Muhammad is charged with first-degree murder in the June 2009 shooting death of Pvt. William Long and attempted capital murder in the wounding of Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula. He has told The Associated Press the shooting was revenge for American killings of Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Muhammad has indicated he wanted to start a terrorist cell in the US<\/a>.\u00a0 The claim appears to be an effort to move his trial to federal court.<\/p>\n

When Muhammad was arrested minutes after the shootings, he told police that he was acting alone and that the ambush was a \u201cjihad\u201d in retaliation for what he believed was a war on Islam by the U.S. Seven months later, in a letter from jail, he claimed to be linked to a Yemen-based al-Qaida affiliate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The local prosecutor has dismissed Muhammad’s assertions as “ridiculous.”<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s nothing but a street thug and this is just a drive-by shooting. That\u2019s our position and we\u2019re sticking to it,\u201d [Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry] Jegley told The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though the story has dropped off most mainstream radars, Abdulhakim Muhammad continues to navigate the judicial system to trial.\u00a0 Muhammad is accused in the 2009 killing of a US Army Soldier and the wounding of one other in a shooting outside a military recruiter’s office in Arkansas. Muhammad is charged with first-degree murder in the June 2009 shooting death of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1777,1779,88,44,1778,1782,2,1781,1780],"class_list":["post-11271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-abdulhakim-muhammad","tag-arkansas","tag-army","tag-islam","tag-jihad","tag-larry-jegley","tag-military","tag-quinton-ezeagwula","tag-william-long"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}