{"id":15526,"date":"2010-01-22T00:57:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2010-01-22T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:07:07","slug":"man-claims-yemen-terror-ties-in-little-rock-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/man-claims-yemen-terror-ties-in-little-rock-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Claims Yemen Terror Ties in Little Rock Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/2010\/01\/22\/man-claims-yemen-terror-ties-in-little-rock-shooting\/abu\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15528\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/abu-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"abu\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/abu-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/abu.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a surprising twist, a Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based affiliate of Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the judge presiding over his case, the accused killer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, calls himself a soldier in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and calls the shooting \u201ca Jihadi Attack\u201d in retribution for the killing of Muslims by American troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t insane or post traumatic nor was I forced to do this Act,\u201d Mr. Muhammad said in a two-page, hand-printed note in pencil. The attack, which he said did not go as planned, was \u201cjustified according to Islamic Laws and the Islamic Religion. Jihad \u2014 to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/us\/22littlerock.html\">Man Claims Terror Ties in Little Rock Shooting &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/6fc4b9bc-e8e1-4645-9a9d-f94078427a02\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=6fc4b9bc-e8e1-4645-9a9d-f94078427a02\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising twist, a Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based affiliate of Al Qaeda. In a letter to the judge presiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[5041,5042,1037,21,2437,1076,2832,4648,1335,270,405,29,1015,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15526"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15534,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions\/15534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}