Tip from Gun Store Clerk Led to Arrest in Alleged New Plan to Attack Fort Hood
A tip from a suspicious former policeman who worked part time at a Texas gun store led authorities to an AWOL soldier believed to be planning a new attack on Fort Hood.
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo was expected to be charged with federal explosives violations after police in Killeen, Texas, found bomb materials and guns in his hotel room near Fort Hood, report the Austin American-Statesman, the Associated Press and the New York Times. Abdo admitted the plot, AP says.
The tipster policeman, Greg Ebert, worked at Guns Galore, the same store where the 2009 Fort Hood attack suspect bought a gun. Abdo was AWOL after the military accused him of keeping child pornography on a computer. He had applied for conscientious objector status because of his Muslim faith, but it was not granted because of the pornography charges, AP says.
Ebert told the Killeen Daily Herald that Abdo had arrived in a taxi, had acted rude, and was not familiar with the types of smokeless gunpowder he bought.
