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Police foil Fort Hood terror plot, AWOL soldier arrested

(GunReports.com) — Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, after raising suspicions at a Killeen, Texas, gun shop where he purchased 6 pounds of gunpowder and several boxes of shotgun shells, was in police custody in Killeen on Thursday, accused of plotting to kill fellow soldiers in a frightening reprise of the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood.

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I read somewhere that all these terrorists had one thing in common - incomptetence / stupidity. Another one rides the bus!

Comment by: david b | August 4, 2011

That's a dangerous assumption David! They are anything but incompetent or stupid. IMO they suffer from the same level of self-righteous arrogance as many of our philandering and sexting politicians.

Comment by: PVB | August 5, 2011

Agreed it's a dangerous assumption P V B. And I agree about the arrogance thing. But then, we have had guys who couldn't light a tennis shoe, or light their underpants.... And this most recent guy was NOT caught with good dectective work or even domestic spying, he was caught by showing his ignorance about things like black powder to a sales guy in a gun store who called local LE. Everybody has laptops these days if they're young, and I know damned well you can learn what to do with black powder on the internet. Hell, I can find videos on YouTube about how to make C4 and such in my kitchen. So, yeah, I think he's a dummy.

And I'm not including these couple of groups back east here who were a few guys each and got entrapped by some FBI agent without any real criminals to chase - like those schmucks from somewhere near NYC who were trying to buy a rocket from the FBI agent, after he suggested it to them and told them he could get them one. DUH! But from where I stand, if you have to be talked into something, you weren't a terrorist, and the real terrorist is the one convincing you.

The only explanations I can think of are either 1) a lot of terrorists really are dummies or 2) a lot of not too bright nut-job criminal wannabes get labeled as terrorists in order to keep the population frightened for some reason (I won't speculate about what those reasons might be. I'm sure we can all think of a few). Maybe you can think of some third explanation? Or even a fourth?

Comment by: david b | August 5, 2011

I agree with your second point. The reason to keep the population frightened? Well, that depends on your perspective - it could be to keep selling "news" to the public, or to create more "need" for big government, or it could be to scare people into agreeing with you, etc...

Comment by: PVB | August 5, 2011

I am quite familiar with the gun shop, Guns Galore, and the employee who alerted the cops to this would be terrorist. I have spent many pleasant hours in the store, and I have also spent a lot of money there as well. The employee, Greg Hebert is a retired sergeant from the Killeen Police Dept, so he already had a pretty good line of communication open to KPD. The guys at Guns Galore are a super bunch of guys and ladies who are very much into doing what's right. If you may remember, the nut case psychiatrist major who killed 13 and wounded some 32 more back on 5 November 2009 also purchased his weapon, an FN 5.7 at Guns Galore. The store employees are still feeling bad about that, although they need not accept any recrimination. Hasan made his purchases in a perfectly legal manner.

Now as to the premise that these nut jobs are dummies or such, I can pretty well figure that they are dumb like a fox. Where they screw up is in some little technicality, like this guy, Abdo, who had no knowledge of how smokeless powder was to be used, but yet he purchased six cans of the stuff plus a Glock magazine. He was also AWOL from the 101st Abn Div at Ft. Campbell, and he was on a warrant for having child porn on his computer. So.....dumb? Dumber? Selectively stupid? Go figure.

Comment by: canovack | August 5, 2011

We used to complete a form when a UA/AWOL troop went into "deserter" status. I can't remember the name of the DD form, but the result was the deserter was "on the wire" so if pulled over for a traffic stop, the police would see they had a deserter. Any deserter turned over subsequently thereto resulted in a stipend to whomever reported it. I assume the practice is still conducted, and wonder if it applies to firearms purchases....

Comment by: PVB | August 6, 2011