{"id":28255,"date":"2012-01-09T19:13:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28255"},"modified":"2012-01-09T19:13:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:13:24","slug":"former-soldier-attempts-to-join-al-shabab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28255","title":{"rendered":"Former soldier attempts to join al Shabab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AverageNCO sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/baltimore\/press-releases\/2012\/former-army-solider-charged-with-attempting-to-provide-material-support-to-al-shabaab\">an entry on the FBI website<\/a> about a former soldier, Craig Benedict Baxam, age 24, of Laurel, Maryland, who was apprehended by Kenyan police while he was trying to join al Shabab in Somalia;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The affidavit alleges that Baxam secretly converted to Islam days before he separated from the Army, after finding an Islamic religious website on the Internet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>On December 20, 2011, Baxam flew from Baltimore-Washington International Airport and arrived in Nairobi, Kenya on December 22. He took a bus to Mombasa, Kenya, and hired taxis to travel through Kenya to Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>On December 23, 2011, Kenyan police stopped a bus in which Baxam was traveling near Mombasa, Kenya, and arrested Baxam for attempting to travel to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab. Baxam was held at the Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Police Unit in Nairobi and interviewed by the FBI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AKO lists Baxam&#8217;s rank as PV1 and his Career Management Field as 35, Military Intelligence. The FBI says he was trained in &#8220;cryptology and intelligence&#8221; and was a veteran of Iraq after which he reenlisted, but that he separated a few weeks before his DEROS date from Korea in July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like he might have been another disciplinary problem while he was in the Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AverageNCO sends us a link to an entry on the FBI website about a former soldier, &hellip; <a title=\"Former soldier attempts to join al Shabab\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28255\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former soldier attempts to join al Shabab<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}