{"id":28349,"date":"2014-02-24T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T04:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28349"},"modified":"2016-10-01T23:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T02:39:31","slug":"former-soldier-gets-prison-after-terrorism-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/former-soldier-gets-prison-after-terrorism-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Soldier Gets Prison after Terrorism Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Army Soldier Craig Baxam was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/muslim-former-soldier-arrested-for-supporting-terrorism\/\">arrested in 2012<\/a> as he attempted to enter Somalia from Kenya &#8212; allegedly in an attempt to join the terrorist group al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<p>To little fanfare and even littler press coverage, Baxam was <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2014-01-13\/news\/bs-md-baxam-terror-hearing-20140113_1_craig-benedict-baxam-terror-cases-linda-moreno\">sentenced in January to seven years <\/a>in prison after pleading guilty to destruction of potentially incriminating records. Baxam pled guilty to<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>destroying his computer in an attempt to cover his tracks before flying to Africa in a bid to join the Somali militant group al-Shabaab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Baxam converted to Islam just before leaving the US Army. He was arrested six months later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Army Soldier Craig Baxam was arrested in 2012 as he attempted to enter Somalia from Kenya &#8212; allegedly in an attempt to join the terrorist group al-Shabaab. To little fanfare and even littler press coverage, Baxam was sentenced in January to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to destruction of potentially incriminating records. Baxam pled guilty 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":[2741,88,2740,44,2465,2,10,274],"class_list":["post-28349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-al-shabaab","tag-army","tag-craig-baxam","tag-islam","tag-kenya","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349","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=28349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}