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This from a Fort Hood news release:
Nothing, as of this post, on the Killeen Police Department news page.
YouTube videos here (CNN) and here (Al Jazz Arabic) of interviews someone with the same name did last year saying he was a Muslim trying to gain conscientious objector status.
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Source: Reuters, 28 Jul 11A U.S. Army soldier was arrested after police found him in a motel room near Fort Hood, Texas, with possible "bomb-making materials," authorities said on Thursday.
FBI Special Agent Eric Vasys said the soldier, who was absent without leave from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was being held in a jail in the city of Killeen, Texas near Fort Hood, on an unrelated child pornography charge.
He was identified as Naser Jason Abdo, 21, originally from the Dallas area. He disappeared from Fort Campbell over the July 4 weekend, Fort Campbell base spokesman Bob Jenkins said. The spelling of his name was initially given by the FBI as Jason Abdo Nassar.
"Whatever threat Mr. Nassar posed yesterday or up until yesterday has been eliminated and mitigated, and there was nothing to indicate he was acting with anyone else," said FBI agent Vasys, who is based in San Antonio.
He did not elaborate on the apparent threat, or what charges Nassar might face. Vasys said he had no knowledge of any other arrests of soldiers.
Nassar was arrested around 2 p.m. local time on Wednesday after a "concerned citizen" reported that he had firearms and smokeless gunpowder in his motel room in Killeen, Vasys said.
"A search of his motel room revealed that he had some components which could be considered bomb-making materials," Vasys said.
In June, the U.S. military approved Nassar as a conscientious objector to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but that status was put on hold after he was charged with child pornography in Kentucky ....
Source: The Statesman (Austin TX), 28 Jul 11Federal authorities said they will likely charge an AWOL Army soldier today with having bomb-making components, including “a significant amount of gunpowder,” in his Killeen hotel room near Fort Hood.
Killeen police officers Wednesday arrested Pvt. Nasser Jason Abdo after learning that he was wanted by the Army on a child pornography charge, FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said.
Vasys said that through the Killeen police investigation, authorities found Abdo’s hotel room and materials that included the gunpowder and other items “that could be considered bomb-making components.”
He was arrested at America’s Best Value Inn on South Fort Hood Road, Killeen police said.
“We don’t know what his motivation was at this time,” Vasys said. “We are trying to learn all things about Mr. Abdo, about what his possible motivations and intentions were.”
Vasys added, “Any threat that was posed by this individual is now over.”
George Wright, an Army spokesman, said he was not aware of anything linking Abdo to a larger plot among soldiers against Army installations.
“I’m not seeing anything to that effect,” Wright said, stressing that he is not a spokesman for the ongoing FBI and Killeen Police Department investigation.
Abdo, whose hometown is Garland, entered the Army in March of 2009 and was assigned to the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell when he went AWOL on July 4, Wright said.
Fort Hood officials said security measures remained the same at the post today.
This from a Fort Hood news release:
We are aware at this time that Killeen Police Department arrested a Soldier yesterday. The incident leading to the arrest did not occur on Fort Hood and the Soldier was not a Fort Hood based Soldier.
At this time, all inquiries in regard to the arrest should be directed to Carroll Smith, Killeen Police PIO, at (254) 501-8807 or csmith@ci.killeen.tx.us.
At this time, there has been no incident at Fort Hood. We continue our diligence in keeping our force protection at appropriate levels.
Nothing, as of this post, on the Killeen Police Department news page.
YouTube videos here (CNN) and here (Al Jazz Arabic) of interviews someone with the same name did last year saying he was a Muslim trying to gain conscientious objector status.
Edited to fix headline, add Reuters info