{"id":18689,"date":"2012-07-27T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18689"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:09","slug":"muslim-soldier-convicted-of-bomb-plot-will-represent-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/27\/muslim-soldier-convicted-of-bomb-plot-will-represent-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Soldier Convicted of Bomb Plot will Represent Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PFC Naser Abdo, the US Army Soldier <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/muslim-us-soldier-convicted-in-terrorist-bomb-plot\/\">convicted of plotting and preparing<\/a> to kill his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, will <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/soldier-represent-bomb-plot-sentencing-16764195\">represent himself during his sentencing<\/a> on August 10th.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo told U.S. District Judge Walter Smith during a Thursday hearing in Waco, Texas, that he and his attorneys weren&#8217;t communicating effectively. Smith granted Abdo&#8217;s request to represent himself at his Aug. 10 sentencing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Abdo was an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/muslim-soldier-recommended-for-discharge-as-co\/\">approved conscientious objector<\/a> under <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/army-islamic-objector-charged-with-child-pornography\/\">investigation for child<\/a> pornography <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/us-army-private-naser-abdo-arrested-in-terror-plot\/\">when he went<\/a> AWOL, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/fort-hood-suspect-planned-execution-at-fort-campbell\/\">planned a high profile execution<\/a> at Fort Campbell, and then traveled\u00a0to Fort Hood to emulate <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/terror-plot-soldier-naser-abdo-defiant-weinstein-equivocates\/\">his apparent hero<\/a>, US Army Major Nidal Hasan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFC Naser Abdo, the US Army Soldier convicted of plotting and preparing to kill his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, will represent himself during his sentencing on August 10th. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo told U.S. District Judge Walter Smith during a Thursday hearing in Waco, Texas, that he and his attorneys weren&#8217;t communicating effectively. Smith granted Abdo&#8217;s request to [&#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":[46,97,52,44,85,2,5218,7,935,1875,1431,10,171],"class_list":["post-18689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-conscientious-objector","tag-fort-hood","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-naser-abdo","tag-nasser-abdo","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689","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=18689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}