{"id":40416,"date":"2014-03-17T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40416"},"modified":"2014-03-17T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:10:09","slug":"nicholas-teausant-arrested-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40416","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Teausant; arrested at the border"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nicholas<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

CB sends us a link from the Seattle Times<\/a> which reports the arrest of Nicholas Teausant who was attempting to cross the US\/Canada border in order join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a band of al Qaeda folks fighting against the governments of Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

According to the complaint, Teausant is a student at San Joaquin Delta Community College in Stockton, Calif. He is also a reservist with the Army National Guard, the complaint states.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleges that since October Teausant has \u201cexplored ways of supporting violent extremist activities and providing material support to various terrorist organizations.\u201d It also alleges he posted information online indicating a desire to join al-Qaida.<\/p>\n

The complaint also says Teausant made his intentions known to an undercover informant working for the FBI during a series of meetings. The informant told the FBI of Teausant\u2019s plans to travel by train and bus from California to Canada, the complaint states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My sources tell me that he is indeed a PV1 in the California National Guard, his Facebook<\/a> page says that he’s in the 118th Maint, CO in Stockton, California, but AKO lists his unit as “RSP Fresno” which looks like a recruiting station<\/a> of sorts, so I’m guessing that his military career ended ignobly a short time ago.<\/p>\n

NBC Los Angeles<\/a> also reports that he planned a terrorist attack in LA;<\/p>\n

He allegedly said in a phone call that while on a post-Thanksgiving camping trip, his group discussed “hitting” Los Angeles subways with a targeted attack on New Year\u2019s Eve or New Year\u2019s Day, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

Teausant made inquiries about buying fireworks “with the biggest boom” and subsequently texted a friend advising, “Don\u2019t go to LA Anytime soo Akhi Please trust me on this\u2026 and if you do don\u2019t use the subway.”<\/p>\n

A 5-month investigation revealed he “has explored ways of supporting violent extremist activities and providing material support to various terrorist organizations, culminating in his attempt to join” Al Qaeda, the complaint stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m thinking he wouldn’t be that successful. <\/p>\n

But, I guess I should point out to the media that a private in a maintenance company hasn’t been trained by the military to perpetrate anything resembling an attack on a large number of people. It looks to me like he didn’t even attend basic training, or at least he didn’t finish it. Unless ISIS need someone to teach them the “Law of Land Warfare”, Drill & Ceremony or how to make “hospital corners”, Nick here, wouldn’t have been much of an asset to them from any military training he might have had.<\/p>\n

The most cost-effective thing that the government could do for him is to let him go to Syria and get himself killed in that morass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CB sends us a link from the Seattle Times which reports the arrest of Nicholas Teausant … Nicholas Teausant; arrested at the border<\/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-40416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416","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=40416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}