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The suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of one soldier and the critical injury of another at a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting booth was under investigation by the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force since his return from Yemen, ABC News has learned.
The investigation was in its preliminary stages, authorities said, and was based on the suspect’s travel to Yemen and his arrest there for using a Somali passport.
When police stopped Muhammad’s vehicle, the suspect immediately surrendered and advised officers that he had a bomb in the car. Bomb techs were dispatched but no explosive devices were found.
But the car was loaded with a small arsenal. Officers who searched the car found more than 100 rounds of ammunition, an SKS assault rifle, two pistols, and two military books.
Twin City Tours, a Little Rock travel company, was listed as Muhammad’s employer on an arrest report.
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Read links to his stay in Tennessee and local Somali immigrants attending the Al-Farooq Mosque with extremist ideology. See my recent comments on domestic terrorism and mention of the Al-Furqan Mosque in Eindhoven.
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What Homeland Security cannot buy … good analysis of terror threat. Plenty of red flags: passport fraud, Somali link, travel to Yemen and recent conversion to Islam. What was the FBI waiting for? A YouTube broadcast of attack on Recruitment Center or a suicide note as LTE to local paper?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
Bin Laden warned the American people against the risk of extended wars because of the policies of the different US administrations. In a tape released shortly after Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia he said:
“Obama and his administration have sowed new seeds of hatred against America.”
Referring to what he claimed to be a US support to Pakistan in its fight against Taliban in the Swat region, which has displaced 2.4 million people.
“Let the American people prepare for to harvest the crops of what the leaders of the White House plant in the next years and decades.”
Saudi reaction
Saudi Arabia described the new tape a sign of the al-Qaeda chief’s desperation.
“It’s an act of desperation,” Nial al-Jubeir, a Saudi information ministry official, told AFP news agency. “They are still making their statements while hiding in a cave.”
Earlier, bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, urged Egyptians to shun Obama, saying his Middle East trip was at the invitation of the “torturers of Egypt” and the “slaves of America”.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."