{"id":41897,"date":"2014-04-02T08:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=41897"},"modified":"2014-04-02T08:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:24:42","slug":"john-thomas-booker-american-jihadist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41897","title":{"rendered":"John Thomas Booker; American jihadist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=41902\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41902\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Muhammad-Abdullah-Hassan_BookerFacebook-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"John_Thomas_Muhammad-Abdullah-Hassan_BookerFacebook\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Muhammad-Abdullah-Hassan_BookerFacebook-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Muhammad-Abdullah-Hassan_BookerFacebook-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Muhammad-Abdullah-Hassan_BookerFacebook.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/04\/01\/exclusive-self-professed-jihadist-was-weeks-away-from-basic-army-training\/\">Fox News<\/a> is reporting that John Thomas Booker, a 19-year-old in St Louis, Missouri, was the jihadist that the military and the FBI were looking for the other day. They still call him the &#8220;GI jihadist&#8221; even though he didn&#8217;t even make it out of the recruiting station, let alone do even a right-face in formation or any other military training.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGetting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush! I am so nervous,&#8221; read a March 19 post on the Facebook page authorities believe belonged to the subject of the alert. &#8220;NOT because I\u2019m scared to die but I am EAGER to meet my lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Thomas Booker, 19, of Topeka, Kan. enlisted in the Army in February and<br \/>\nwas due to report for basic training on April 7. But the FBI interviewed him in March and alerted the Army, which formally discharged him last week. He is now in an undisclosed mental health facility, sources told FoxNews.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes on the heels of the arrest a few days ago of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40495\">Nicholas Teausant<\/a> who was another jihadist who had enlisted, but never made it to basic training, either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Booker, who attended Topeka West High School, where he was a member of the Junior ROTC program before graduating in 2012, at some point began calling himself Muhammad Abdullah Hassan. According to his now-defunct Facebook profile, Hassan \u201cStudied Protection, Security and Investigation at Flint Hills Job Corps\u201d and lives in Topeka.<\/p>\n<p>On March 9, a month after he enlisted at the Kansas City recruiting station, Booker posted a series of photos of Usama bin Laden holding various weapons. \u201cAllahu Akbar J Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his army..\u201d reads a post by the photo.<\/p>\n<p>On March 15, a post on the Facebook page expressed Booker&#8217;s desire to die for his beliefs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think we ought to help him with his goal &#8211; send him to Fort Leonard Wood and employ him as a pop-up, running, screaming target on the rifle range.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=41904\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Booker_muhammad-abdullah-hassan-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"John_Thomas_Booker_muhammad-abdullah-hassan\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Booker_muhammad-abdullah-hassan-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Booker_muhammad-abdullah-hassan-500x203.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John_Thomas_Booker_muhammad-abdullah-hassan.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since these guys are so vocal on social media about their intentions, maybe recruiters should start trolling prospective recruits&#8217; accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that John Thomas Booker, a 19-year-old in St Louis, Missouri, was the &hellip; <a title=\"John Thomas Booker; American jihadist\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41897\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Thomas Booker; American jihadist<\/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-41897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41897","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=41897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}