{"id":12351,"date":"2011-08-05T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2011-08-05T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T05:59:06","slug":"correction-and-abdo-makes-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/correction-and-abdo-makes-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Correction: And Abdo Makes Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously it was noted the foiled attack on Fort Hood by US Army PFC Naser Abdo <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/trust-is-a-casualty-abdo-makes-eighth-attackattempt-on-military\/\">made <strong>8<\/strong> recent attacks or attempted attacks<\/a>\u00a0on the US military by people apparently somehow motivated by their Islamic beliefs.\u00a0 That was in error; it is actually <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">9<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Air Force Times <\/em>notes the case of Antonio Martinez, <!--more-->a naturalized US citizen who converted to Islam and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/12\/ap-bomb-plot-suspect-knew-about-oregon-sting-120910\/\">uses the name Muhammad Hussain<\/a>.\u00a0 Martinez placed and attempted to detonate an SUV-bomb at a military recruiting center in Maryland late last year.\u00a0 Turns out his accomplices were FBI agents, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/12\/ap-bomb-plot-suspect-121310\/\">their bomb was fake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Manuelian said investigators captured Martinez on videotape, \u201cgrinning from ear to ear,\u201d as he armed the phony bomb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no indication of any remorse, any concern, any nervousness that he is about to go and kill people,\u201d Manuelian said.<\/p>\n<p>Manuelian said that before Martinez tried to detonate the bomb with a cell phone, he videotaped himself saying, \u201cThere will be no place for the oppressors. You will feel our bullets.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Martinez faces life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez&#8217;s defense says he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/12\/ap-bomb-plot-suspect-121310\/\">entrapped by the FBI<\/a>.\u00a0 They now want the charges dropped because they claim the FBI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/08\/ap-defense-drop-charges-recruit-center-bomb-suspect-080211\/\">did not record early conversations with Martinez<\/a> that prove their coercion.<\/p>\n<p>The list of nine attacks\/attempted attacks on the US military by assailants apparently claiming some form of Islamic motivation includes four by US servicemembers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/us-army-private-naser-abdo-arrested-in-terror-plot\/\">Fort Hood attack<\/a> thwarted (PFC Abdo, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Shots <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/muslim-marine-charged-with-firing-on-pentagon-military-bldgs\/\">fired at Pentagon<\/a>, other military bldgs (Marine Reservist Yonathan Melaku, 2010)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/fort-hood-shooting-suspect-arraigned-changes-lawyers\/\">Fort Hood<\/a> massacre <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/hasans-fort-hood-victims-13-or-14\/\">kills 14<\/a> (Army Maj Hasan, 2009)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A7210-2005Apr21.html\">Fragging in Kuwait<\/a> by Army Sgt Hasan Akbar (2003) (death sentence on appeal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seattle <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/fort-hood-inspired-plotters-jailed-indicted\/\">recruiting station attack<\/a> thwarted (2011)<\/li>\n<li>Frankfurt <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/germany-files-charges-in-frankfurt-airport-attack\/\">airport attack<\/a> kills 2 US Airmen (Arid Uka, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/08\/ap-defense-drop-charges-recruit-center-bomb-suspect-080211\/\">recruiting center car bomb<\/a> thwarted (Antonio Martinez, 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/defense-begins-case-for-arkansas-jihadist\/\">recruiting station attack<\/a> by Abdulhakim Muhammad (2009, life without parole)<\/li>\n<li>Fort Dix <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,518337,00.html\">attack thwarted<\/a> (2007) (6 convictions, 4 life sentences)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously it was noted the foiled attack on Fort Hood by US Army PFC Naser Abdo made 8 recent attacks or attempted attacks\u00a0on the US military by people apparently somehow motivated by their Islamic beliefs.\u00a0 That was in error; it is actually 9.\u00a0 The Air Force Times notes the case of Antonio Martinez,<\/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":[2028,88,2031,44,2,2030,935,1875,2029],"class_list":["post-12351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-antonio-martinez","tag-army","tag-christine-manuelian","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-muhammad-hussain","tag-naser-abdo","tag-nasser-abdo","tag-recruiting-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351","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=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}