{"id":31455,"date":"2012-08-10T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31455"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:20:39","slug":"abdo-gets-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31455","title":{"rendered":"Abdo gets life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naser Abdo, the ambitious fellow who plotted to bomb and then shoot up a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, outside the gates of Fort Hood has been sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge, according to the Associate Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Let’s recap, shall we; Abdo was AWOL from Fort Campbell after winning conscientious objector status from the Army, before child porn was found on his computer. His lawyer was James Branum, famous around these parts for defending countless deserters and AWOL soldiers at Fort Hood. After going AWOL himself, Abdo shows up in his lawyer’s stomping grounds, in the vicinity of “Under the Hood” an IVAW-sponsored coffee house where much of the local anti-war crowd gathered to plot the voicing of their displeasure with the wars. And where James Branum recruited clients for his law practice.<\/p>\n

Abdo had no visible means of support, yet he was living in a motel in Killeen and he was able to buy guns, ammunition and components for his bombs, not to mention military clothing he needed to execute his plot and the things like food and stuff. <\/p>\n

On the day Abdo was arrested, IVAW and James Branum went absolutely silent. Within a few weeks, Branum was out of the military lawyer thing and he’s gone back to Oklahoma to fail at practicing his trade there. <\/p>\n

We had IVAW members and some of their former fans from the Killeen area emailing us asking about how they could get in touch with the FBI in the hours following Abdo’s arrest. I don’t know how any of that turned out, and we’ll probably never know. But we can guess what all of that drama was about.<\/p>\n

Maybe someday Jason Abdo will tell us about it. I’d write his book for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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