{"id":11685,"date":"2011-07-04T02:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11685"},"modified":"2011-07-04T03:04:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T08:04:31","slug":"muslim-marine-charged-with-firing-on-pentagon-military-bldgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/muslim-marine-charged-with-firing-on-pentagon-military-bldgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Marine Charged with Firing on Pentagon, Military Bldgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yonathan Melaku, a Marine Corps reservist, has been arrested and connected to a <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2011-06-24\/news\/29699853_1_military-sites-reservist-pentagon\">string of shootings at military buildings<\/a> in the DC area:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors said&#8230;they found bomb-making materials in Melaku\u2019s backpack and later, inside his home, found a typewritten list of potential bomb components.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also found a video he took of himself firing shots outside the National Museum of the Marine Corps last fall and repeatedly saying the Arabic words &#8220;Allahu Akbar,&#8221; which <!--more-->means &#8220;God is Great.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Melaku has reportedly been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/06\/ap-marines-reservist-accused-of-shootings-booted-062811\/\">dismissed from the Marines<\/a> after an unrelated criminal incident, which apparently dealt with vehicular vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>Characterizations of Melaku to this point have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/06\/so-is-he-muslim-or-not\/\">downplayed his religion<\/a>, military ties, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts-law\/officials-man-detained-at-pentagon-last-week-linked-to-dc-area-military-building-shootings\/2011\/06\/22\/AGrIRQgH_story.html\">string of attacks<\/a> on the US military.\u00a0 The only statement to date has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post_now\/post\/report-person-taken-into-custody-near-pentagon\/2011\/06\/17\/AGX7xbYH_blog.html\">described the situation<\/a> as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This looks like a whole big bunch of nothing,&#8221; said [an anonymous] official, who added that &#8220;the general consensus is that it might be some type of mental issue with the guy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yonathan Melaku, a Marine Corps reservist, has been arrested and connected to a string of shootings at military buildings in the DC area: Federal prosecutors said&#8230;they found bomb-making materials in Melaku\u2019s backpack and later, inside his home, found a typewritten list of potential bomb components. Investigators also found a video he took of himself firing shots outside the National Museum [&#8230;]<\/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":[1873,44,149,2,1872],"class_list":["post-11685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-allahu-akbar","tag-islam","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-yonathan-melaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685","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=11685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}