ABDULHAKIM Muhammad, 23, arrested after the fatal shooting on Monday of Pvt William Long, 23, and the wounding of Pvt Quinton I Ezeagwula, 18, in Little Rock, Arkansas, may have planned other atrocities, according to the FBI.
Pvt Long
Stephen Emmett, spokesman for the Atlanta FBI office, said the subsequent investigation into the shooting turned up evidence to suggest that Muhammad planned to target a “Jewish entity” in Atlanta.
Emmett declined to say what specific site in Atlanta might have been in Muhammad’s plans, but “precautions were taken [in Atlanta] because of the serious nature of the Little Rock” shooting.
Muhammad, a Muslim convert, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to state charges he killed Pvt Long and wounded Pvt Ezeagwula, while they were smoking outside a recruiting office. Both recently completed basic training but had not seen combat.
According to this report, searches of Muhammad’s computer turned up maps in several states to Jewish organizations, a child care center, a Baptist church, a post office, military recruiting centers and Times Square in New York City.
Abdulhakim Muhammad
Muhammad is said to have had the firepower to take out many more on his mission to “kill as many people in the Army as he could.” He allegedly targeted soldiers:
Because of what they had done to Muslims in the past.
Search warrant affidavits showed that police found weapons and caches of ammunition from Muhammad’s truck and apartment. Officers confiscated an SKS assault rifle believed to be used in the shootings, a .22-caliber rifle with a laser sight, other firearms, Molotov cocktails, homemade silencers and compact disks with Arabic writing on them.
The truck also held a plastic tub filled with bottles of water, “canned food, boxed food, bagged food and a butane lighter” and, incongruously, a golf score card.
Pvt Long’s background is contained in this report.
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June 4th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
It's a good thing this violent sociopath found religion in time to turn his life around and… oh wait umm never mind.
June 4th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
It is interesting that it is often the convert that turns murderous. I sort of have sympathy for someone who had religion drummed into them as a child and was then unable to shake it off, but anyone who converts to a religion as an adult has to be a few sticks short of a bundle surely.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Stonyground, in my experience it is converts who are often craziest, most intolerant, and least likely to STFU. A Catholic convert in my office made everyone's life a misery and had to be 'reassigned' – this was after one of my exasperated team started saying 'The Pope's a paedo' at every available opportunity. Here, of course, nutters don't have the inalienable right to shoot people who piss them off.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Amen Stonyground. I'd go so far as to say that it's impossible for a religion to convert any adult unless he's in some way emotionally or psychologically vulnerable.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I'm intrigued by the golf score card.
So he took two shots, made a hole in one and left the other with a handicap. And, according to the FBI, he still had a fairway to go!